by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 4, 2022 | Ambassador, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Prayer, Emerging Church, MCOI Journal, mysticism, Oprah Winfrey, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Rob Bell, Satanic RItual Abuse, Satanism, Satanists, Tolerance, Wicca, Winter/Spring 2016
(Although this was originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2016 Issue of the MCOI Journal it is a mere precursor to what we see today!) Though I no longer consider myself a Christian, I’m still keeping a space for God in my heart. I didn’t lose my religion. Instead,...
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...
by Joy A Veinot | Feb 17, 2022 | Fall 1999, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Pagan Celebrations, Paganism
(This originally appeared in the Fall 1999 edition of the MCOI Journal) We are heading into the Christmas season again, and you know what that means, some Jehovah’s Witness (JW) is certain to show up on your doorstep and hand you a Watchtower or Awake!...
by Joy Veinot | Dec 20, 2021 | Good News, Grace, Incarnation, MCOI Journal, November/December 1996, Salvation
(Originally printed “The Gift” In the November/December 1996 MCOI Journal) What is it about Christmas that draws us every year to celebrations of this holiday? What is so special about Christmas? Christmas is a special time because of the happiness it...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 12, 2021 | Abraham Maslow, Atheist, Darwinism, Marxism, No 1, Pedophilia, Progressives, Psychology, Robert H. Schuller, Self-Esteem, Summer/Fall 2014, Volume 20, Willow Creek Community Church
Editor’s Note: Over the past eighteen months or so one of the questions we receive most often is how did Western culture change so rapidly? Our response is it didn’t. All of this has been in the works for a very long time. We and others have been writing and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 29, 2021 | Communion, Mediatrix, No 1, Reformation, Rick Warren, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Salvation, Volume 13, Winter 2007
(Originally printed in the Winter 2007 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 1) On April 22 of 2005, I was surprised to come across the Special to the Tribune section of the Chicago Tribune with the headline: “Evangelical Christians have hailed the ‘Purpose...
