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...
by Marcia Montenegro | Jul 26, 2022 | Buddhism, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Mindfulness, mysticism, New Age
Editor’s Note: Although some Buddhist concepts are explained here, the thrust of the article is to describe the Western take on Buddhism via the New Age and the secular culture, and how some of its practices and concepts, especially Mindfulness, have migrated to the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 3, 2022 | Buddhism, Centering Prayer, Chakras, Contemplative Prayer, Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Empire Strikes Back, Evangelical Left, Hinduism, Kundalini, Meditation, mysticism, New Age, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Willow Creek Community Church, Yoga
The 1960s and ’70s was a time of great transition for Western culture — and in our opinion, not in a good way. Sadly in our view, America led the way down that slippery slope. Social mores and long-held religious tenets were challenged and often discarded by...
by Marcia Montenegro | Nov 19, 2020 | Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Gnostic, Panentheism, Richard Rohr
In 2017 I wrote how dismaying it was that Christian gospel singer Gloria Gaither would not only approvingly interview Richard Rohr, but she used his book, Falling Upward, in a Bible study. With the infectious spread of Rohr’s false doctrine in the church it seems time...
by Marcia Montenegro | Oct 10, 2020 | Beth Moore, Buddhism, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, Labyrinth, Meditation, New Age, Richard Foster
(Originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2006 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 12) Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. . . (Col. 4:2 NASB). Many thanks and credit go to Kim Treweek for the painstaking work of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 8, 2019 | Centering Prayer, Church leadership, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, Evangelical Left, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Hinduism, mysticism, Perennialism
After I spoke at a church this past weekend, I was asked, “How is it that so many celebrity preachers, celebrity Christian authors, and celebrity pastors take the stage with known (and popular) false teachers?” There are, of course, many possible reasons. It could be...
