by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 17, 2024 | Agnostic, Atheism, Atheist, Civil War, History, Middle America, Morality, Nationalism and Faith, Post Christian, Socialism
Twenty years ago, right after the Bush v Kerry election, we wrote a journal article, “A House Divided Against Itself,” about the state of our nation. It was specifically about the yawning divide that had opened up between the two parties, or more...
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...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 11, 2024 | #Blacklivesmatter, #BLM, Academia, ANTIFA, Authoritarian, Cancel Culture, Climate Change, Global Cooling, Global Warming, Globalism, Lawlessness, Socialism, Woke
The 1968 film Wild in the Streets has been described as an “American dystopian comedy-drama film.” In an era of rebellion against authority – the late 1960s – the premise of Wild in the Streets was simple. High school and college-age youth came to believe that they...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 13, 2020 | Abortion, Adultery, CriticalThinkingNotCriticalTheory, Homosexuality, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Racism, Salvation, Sin, Slavery, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, White Fragility
Young religious legal experts were always asking Jesus questions, trying to stump or trap him into an answer they could use against him in some way. Kind of like our modern-day press corps, except that these 1st century Jewish young guns were probably better educated....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 6, 2020 | #Blacklivesmatter, ANTIFA, Atheism, Authoritarian, bigotry, Black Liberation Theology, Black Lives are Sacred, Evangelical Left, John Dewey, Liberal Left, Marxism, Persecution, Politics, Post Christian, Racism, Socialism
Standing on conviction can be an intimidating and scary proposition. Publicly standing on an unpopular conviction, in the woke “cancel culture” of our day can perhaps drive even the braver hearts to seek shelter. There is much hatred in the land today aimed at...
by Joy A Veinot | May 7, 2020 | Abortion, Apologetics, Global Warming, Globalism, Humanism, Humanist Manifest, Intolerance, MCOI Journal, Morality, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Perennialism, Planetary Humanism, Relativism, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, Tolerance, Winter 2000
(This originally appeared in the Winter 2000 edition of the MCOI Journal) By Sarah Flashing & Joy A. Veinot Many people faced the new Millennium with a sense of dread and apprehension. What would happen to the world in our new century? War? Famine? Economic...
