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 | 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 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...
by Jonathan Miles | Dec 5, 2019 | Atheist, Boghossian, Culture War, Intolerance, Tolerance, Transgender, Transgendered, Truth
If, as it is said, politics makes for strange bedfellows, Cultural Ideology says, “Hold My Beer.” Peter Boghossian, a philosophy professor, In his essay Welcome to Culture War 2.0, claims that we are witnessing a “great realignment” of cultural...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 31, 2019 | Free Speech, Freedom, Political Correctness, Politics, Social tyranny, Tolerance, Truth
In John 19:38 Pilate responds to Jesus when he quips, “What is truth?” It was more of a commentary on the problem of language in that day than on the claims of Jesus. The very definition of “truth” in Greco-Roman culture was elusive and contradictory. For the common...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 29, 2017 | Apologetics, Atheism, Christian exclusivity, Christian Life, Early Church Fathers, Gay Marriage, Hate, Morality, New Atheists, Political Correctness, Politics, Salvation, Tolerance
The first time I recall being aware of the devastating power of Black Lies was probably in the 2000 election battle between George Bush and Al Gore. I was running my daily errands, and while at the Post Office, I witnessed the woman ahead of me having a near emotional...
Hi, Lynn, thanks for your comment, which I just now read. It is so true that "bypassing the mind is…
The Catholic Church does not definitively teach that the three Marys were the same. Scholars since the early church have…
Attempts have been and continue to be made to bring about repentance. In the Old Testament, false prophets were to…
The Reformed position doesn't "replace" Israel with the church. Like the apostle Paul, the Reformed position is that believing Jews…
What kind of Christian has no love for other people? What kind of author allows this in the comments? I…