by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 3, 2026 | Bible, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Death, Divination, Docetism, False gods, Gnostic, Hinduism, Idolatry, Idols, Incarnation, Islam, Mystic, mysticism, Pagan Celebrations, Paganism
The 18th‑century evangelist and a central figure in the Great Awakening, George Whitefield, preaching in London sometime before 1770, told an anecdote concerning the celebrated actor Thomas Betterton and an Archbishop of Canterbury: In 1675, the Archbishop of...
by Stephanie A Potts | Jun 11, 2026 | Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, John Mark Comer, Marxism, mysticism, Panentheism, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Spiritual Formation
This is the second article in a multipart series (see part 1 here) on Matt Smallbone, who is the pastor of Church Of The City (COTC) in downtown Nashville and cousin to Joel Smallbone of the band for KING & COUNTRY. This article will continue to discuss my...
by Stephanie A Potts | Apr 16, 2026 | Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, False Teacher, Human Potential Movement, Meditation, Mindfulness, New Apostles and Prophets, New Thought, Occult, Occultism, Richard Rohr
My church recently read The Biblio Diet, by Jordan Rubin and Dr. Josh Axe, for our church book club. While I fully support living a healthy lifestyle, my radar goes up anytime I see someone trying to use scripture to support their research into healthy ways of living....
by Marcia Montenegro | Mar 26, 2026 | Aceticism, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Hermeneutics, John Mark Comer, Meditation, Reliability of the Bible, Ruth Haley Barton
This is a response to material from Summit Ministries promoting the Contemplative practices of solitude, Lectio Divina, and the Rule of Life found in “Practicing the Disciplines of Jesus,” “Spiritual Disciplines Series: Meditating on Scripture, and “Family Rhythms for...
by Marcia Montenegro | May 1, 2025 | Astrology, Carl Jung, Centering Prayer, Chakras, Claudio Naranjo, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Mindfulness, Mystic, mysticism, New Age, Richard Rohr, Suzanne Stabile, Tarot Cards, Yoga
Don Veinot recently sent me a brief video, Spirituality Without Religion: The Rise of the ‘Modern Mystic’ (less than 9 minutes), that discusses how society is now more open to “spirituality” without connecting it to specific religions, at least not knowingly. This has...
by Gwendolyn Rodriguez | Jan 5, 2023 | Brennan Manning, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Deception, Enneagram, Meditation, Mindfulness, mysticism, Perennialism, Richard Foster, Thomas Keating, Thomas Merton, William Meninger, Yoga
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world , rather than according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8) Brandon Medina et al. writes that love was the...
