by Aaron Wright | Jan 28, 2016 | Cults and Religions, Eastern Mysticism, Hinduism, Jesus a Buddhist, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Lost Years of Jesus, mysticism, New Age, Political Correctness, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Relativism, Scripture, Theology
Many have claimed the real story of Jesus is different from the records of the New Testament. As early as the second century different cults were claiming to have found new information. All claimed the lost years of Jesus’ childhood as their basis. In Part 1 of this...
by Aaron Wright | Jan 21, 2016 | Cults and Religions, Eastern Mysticism, Hinduism, Jesus a Buddhist, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Lost Years of Jesus, mysticism, New Age, Political Correctness, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Relativism, Scripture, Theology
We survived another Christmas. It is fascinating that as that season rolls around there is usually a great push to be politically correct. “Merry Christmas” is replaced with “happy holidays”. Mangers are replaced with the new and improved...
by Ken Ammi | Apr 25, 2013 | Atheism, Cults and Religions, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Mormonism, New Age, Relativism, Winter/Spring 2013
(Originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2013 MCOI Journal) This is a succinct retelling of a conversation betwixt me and an adherent of a New-Age worldview. When it comes to evangelization, apologetics, polemics or into whichever field your ministry takes you, you...
by Sarah Flashing | Nov 24, 2012 | Christ and the Church, Culture and Society, Emerging Church, Fall 2011, MCOI Journal, Postmodernism, Relativism, Theology
(Originally printed in the Fall 2011 Issue of the MCOI Journal) For many years, the current youth generation-“Generation ‘Y’” or the “Millennials”-has been the focus of numerous books, articles, and studies. From a Christian perspective, much of the analysis has been...
by Marcia Montenegro | Nov 23, 1997 | Cults and Religions, Hinduism, karma, MCOI Journal, New Age, November/December 1997, Reincarnation, Relativism
(This originally appeared in the November/December 1997 MCOI Journal) Learning to see energy around plants and people, feeling that the universe is an extension of your body, being guided by whatever might first come to your mind at the moment – what if you were...
by Dennis McCallum | Jan 23, 1997 | Culture and Society, January/February 1997, MCOI Journal, Relativism
By Dennis McCallum (This originally appeared in the January/February 1997 MCOI Journal) Within months after Charles Darwin released his Origin of the Species in 1859, a revolution in thinking gripped the scientific world. Although, at the time, most Christians had no...