by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 9, 2023 | Astrology, Enneagram, Occultism, Paganism, Pastors, Psychology, Richard Rohr, Tarot Cards
Personality type assessments originated in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They initially involved evaluating the bumps on the subject’s head (phrenology) or “based on a person’s outer appearances.”1“Personality test” These innovative methods of assessing character...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 23, 2023 | Beatrice Chestnut, Beth McCord, Claudio Naranjo, Enneagram, G.I. Gurdjieff, Helen Palmer, New Age, Occult, Occultism, Oscar Ichazo, Psychic, Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Salvation, Sola Scriptura
(Editor Alert! This article is not short.) One of the newest books promoting the Enneagram to Christians is How We Relate: Understanding God, Yourself, and Others through the Enneagram by Jesse Eubanks.1Jesse Eubanks, How We Relate: Understanding God, Yourself, and...
by Marcia Montenegro | Jan 19, 2023 | Books, Christ and the Church, Enneagram, MCOI Journal, Panentheism, Theological Erotica, Winter/Spring 2013
Editor’s Note: When we originally printed Marcia Montenegro’s commentary on Ann Voskamp’s book, One Thousand Gifts in the Winter/Spring 2013 MCOI Journal, Marcia made it clear this is a commentary, not a book review. There were two primary issues of...
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 Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 29, 2022 | Atheist, Biblical Ethics, Cancel Culture, Child Sacrifice, Contemplative Prayer, Culture War, Deity of Christ, Enneagram, Greek Mythology, Immorality, Judaism, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Paganism, Panentheism, ProLife, Richard Rohr, Tolerance, Virtue
The First Century Roman Empire was pluralistic, relativistic, and very spiritual. The Greeks and Romans shared about 15 or 16 gods and goddesses, worshipped under different names.1See “Greek Gods and their Roman Counterparts” for listing, descriptions, and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 8, 2022 | Beth McCord, Claudio Naranjo, Enneagram, Evagrius Ponticus, G.I. Gurdjieff, James Emery White, Mecklenburg Community Church, Oscar Ichazo, Richard Rohr, Suzanne Stabile
The 1973 film, The Sting, a very popular movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, achieved critical acclaim and garnered seven Oscars. It was inspired by the 1940 book, The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man, written by David Maurer about two actual...
Ron, great research, insight, and a fair differentiation between MacArthur and Gothard. I had to laugh at the "Gothard 5:8"…
Lordship salvation and the "Umbrella of protection" are different things. Bill Gothard is an eclectic mystic who hears ideas he…
Question? Does this have anything to do with Lordship Salvation's concepts that MacArthur teaches? I am glad you brought this…
“ Now, in every theological error, there is usually an element of truth.” There is always real cheese in a…
That is an interesting and, as it turns out, a false accusation. The criteria we draw on are not of…