by Marcia Montenegro | Feb 5, 2026 | Aceticism, Channeling, Contemplative Prayer, Demons, Desert Fathers, Henry Nouwen, Mindfulness, mysticism, Richard Foster, Richard Rohr, Roman Catholicism, Ruth Haley Barton, Self deceived, Thomas Keating, William Meninger
Interest in the ancient mystics and ascetics has grown among evangelicals over the past quarter-century. Last week, we began this journey into that past with “Part 1: The Desert Fathers and Mothers: A Model for Christians?” Next up in Part 2… John Climacus and the...
by Marcia Montenegro | Jan 29, 2026 | Aceticism, Buddhism, Contemplative Prayer, Desert Fathers, Richard Rohr, Self deceived
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing fascination and interest in the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Somehow their mysticism and asceticism seems somehow more spiritual than we see in the church today. The Apostle Paul addressed this in the first century in...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 20, 2025 | AIDS, Brian McLaren, Culture Driven Church, Emerging Church, Enneagram, Evangelical Left, Progressives, Richard Rohr, Spiritual AIDS, Theology, Woke
In our 2010 article, Christian Scandal (the good kind) Jonathan Miles rightly pointed out that: … distinctly Christian stumbling blocks have been questioned by the Culture Driven Church. Grace and Hell have long been disparaged. Grace has either been watered down...
by Marcia Montenegro | May 1, 2025 | Astrology, Carl Jung, Centering Prayer, Chakras, Claudio Naranjo, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Mindfulness, Mystic, mysticism, New Age, Richard Rohr, Suzanne Stabile, Tarot Cards, Yoga
Don Veinot recently sent me a brief video, Spirituality Without Religion: The Rise of the ‘Modern Mystic’ (less than 9 minutes), that discusses how society is now more open to “spirituality” without connecting it to specific religions, at least not knowingly. This has...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 9, 2025 | Bible Prophecy, End Times, Enneagram, Eschatology, False Memory Syndrome, False Prophecy, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Weigh Down Workshop
Porpoise Driven Life – Mark Allen From purpose driven lives to unscheduled visits to heaven, Christians and churches too often seem to be racing from fad to fad. A while ago someone sent us a link to the above video last week with the question, “Is it really...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 10, 2024 | Bible, Christ, Claudio Naranjo, Cosmic Christ, Deity of Christ, Enneagram, Heresy, Incarnation, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus a Buddhist, Mormon, Panentheism, Richard Rohr, Socialism, Yoga
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. (John 1:1-3) The Apostle John penned the opening lines of his...
