by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 20, 2024 | Christ, Contemplative Prayer, deconstruction, Enneagram, Incarnation, Jewish, Pastors, Progressives, Shepherds
A favorite pastime for some popular teachers today is to find new and exciting biblical “insights” to share with others. These “new discoveries” can quickly take on a life of their own and grow unchecked and unchallenged. We think if something has been unknown or...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 9, 2024 | Antisemitism, Atheism, Bible, Born Again, Christ, Church, Church History, context, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Liberal Left, Progressives
Some have been shocked at what seems like a sudden explosion of anti-Semitism on university campuses. It is shocking, but perhaps we should not be all that astonished. Why should we be so surprised? William F. Buckley Jr. raised the alert in his 1951 book, God and Man...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 14, 2023 | Christ, Christmas, Church History, Deity of Christ, Incarnation, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jewish, Virgin birth
The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights) began on December 7 and will end today. It is an annual celebration of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, Israel, which took place in the second century BCE (Yes! Jews were living in the land long...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 24, 2023 | Authoritarian, Child Sacrifice, Christ, Claudio Naranjo, Elaine Pagels, Enneagram, Evolution, Fear, mysticism, Perennialism, Progressives, Richard Rohr
Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Yoo-hoo, ooh-ooh. You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will be as one.1Imagine, John Lennon, 1971 John Lennon’s song and album by the...
by Stephanie A Potts | Jul 20, 2023 | Bible, Christ, Good Works, Gospel, Grace, Hell, Purgatory, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Sanctification, Sin, Traditions
This article is the first in a series I will be writing regarding my concerns with the official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Someone very close to me recently converted to Catholicism and has become an avid Catholic apologist and teaches catechism at...
by M. David Johnson | Dec 29, 2022 | Adventists, Bible, Christ, Deity of Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist, Translations
In the November 24, 2022 issue of MCOI’s E-Letter The Crux, under the heading of “The Deity of Christ Throughout Scripture,” Don points us to Kaspars Ozolins’ article in the Proclamation! Online Magazine, “How the Little Book of Jude Refutes Adventism.” In that...
