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 Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 20, 2022 | Brian McLaren, Christopher Heuertz, Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Emerging Church, Enneagram, Evangelicalism, Pastors, Progressives, Redemption, Richard Rohr, Salvation, Suzanne Stabile
All roads that lead to God are good. What matters it, your faith, or mine? Both centre at the goal divine Of love’s eternal Brotherhood. The kindly life in house or street — The life of prayer and mystic rite — The student’s search for truth and light — These paths at...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 22, 2021 | Adultery, Deceiver, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, mysticism, Paganism, Truth
When our son Lee was a child, he was with a friend watching television in our living room one afternoon when a spot commercial for MASH came on. One of the male characters was trying to entice one of the female characters into a sexual liaison. He replied to her...
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 | Oct 8, 2020 | Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Incarnation, mysticism, Panentheism, Richard Rohr
Mysticism has become a growth industry within the confessing church in recent years. The reading and studying of the Word of God in its historical/grammatical context has long been known to be the way to understand the things of God and the gospel, but it is...
