by Pastor G. Richard Fisher | Aug 22, 2024 | Black Liberation Theology, Christ and the Church, Culture and Society, Discernment, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Politics, Theology
Editors Note: Although our friend, mentor and Advisory Board member, the late Pastor G. Richard Fisher, contributed this twelve years ago. With the advent of CRT and Progressivism it is just as relevant and insightful today. I have been asked numerous times about the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 8, 2024 | Culture and Society, Homosexuality, Paganism, Politics
Should Christian faith and politics be mutually exclusive or inextricably intertwined? The answer to this question is all over the map. Many Christians argue that we should not be involved in the political process at all, while others argue that it would be...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 25, 2024 | Church, Culture and Society, Evangelical Left, Human Rights Violations, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Politics, Progressives, Racism
As we in the Western world shake off the last vestiges of a Judeo/Christian worldview and morality, it seems to be easier to look the other way when it comes to religious hate crimes. We have instances of attacks on churches – and more and more, we hear Christians...
by Joy Veinot | Aug 10, 2023 | Culture and Society, Hinduism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Seminar, karma, MCOI Journal, Mormonism, Paganism, Reincarnation, Relativism, September/October 1997, Tolerance, Wicca
(Editor’s note: The first Parliament of the World’s Religions was held in 1893. The next one was 100 years later in Chicago. We attended to see firsthand what they were proposing. We have attended and reported on others, but as we prepare for this one...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 26, 2023 | Abortion, Black Lives are Sacred, Culture and Society, Euthanasia, Infanticide, MCOI Journal, Slavery, Spring 2012
Editor’s note: This past Sunday (January 22, 2023) was Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. It is recognition that human life is precious and should be protected. However, as we point out in this article which was originally printed in 2012, human rights are only accorded...
by Joy Veinot | Apr 21, 2022 | Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Enneagram, Grace, January/February 1996, Jehovah's Witnesses, M Scott Peck, MCOI Journal, Paganism, Psychology, Salvation
In Ecclesiastes 1:9-11, Solomon wrote: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no...