With new people still discovering this issue it’s fitting to point out again why it is the Lord might wish to involve me. I happen to be one whom God, in His mercy and sovereignty, chose to regenerate, deliver me from the religious bondage of apostate Roman Catholicism, and later call me to the unspeakable privilege of being among the […]

The following is from the introduction to a teaching by Thomas Merton called What Is Contemplation? On page 17 of the Renovare book Spiritual Classics edited by Richard Foster and Emilie Griffin we read: Thomas Merton has perhaps done more than any other twentieth-century figure to make the life of prayer widely known and understood… During his […]

So Where Did Contemplative/Centering Prayer Actually Originate? We are aware Wikipedia is not a source normally used in more scholastic research and the following is quoted mainly for the convenience of the lay reader but it will be firmly established by subsequent testimony below: seeds of what would become known as contemplation were sown early in the Christian […]

Luther and Calvin, Knox and Latimer did not think: We have so much in common with the Romanists, we need to make common cause with them in opposing humanism and Islam. The Reformers did not say: We can be co-belligerents with Rome, since we agree on God, Jesus Christ, abortion, and so many other things. […]

Great Saints Entrenched In Apostasy And Teaching Counter Reformation Spirituality Apprising Ministries now continues our look at some of the issues raised in a letter from the ministry of Ravi Zacharias that was sent to us by an AM reader where RZIM firmly defends a statement by Zacharias where he emphatically states, ““One of the greatest saints of recent memory was Henri Nouwen.” For […]

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier […]

This is a follow up to the Apprising Ministries article Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Defend Universalist Henri Nouwen and Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. Therein we remind you of an earlier AM piece Ravi Zacharias Answers “Can A Person Live A Sincere Christian Life As A Homosexual?”  where you can hear Protestant evangelical apologist Zacharias say, “One of the greatest […]

Over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter writes: For those wondering about the strength of concern about Henri Nouwen and his defenders like Ravi Zacharias, here is an excerpt of a new book from David Cloud about this new mystical fascination in evangelicalism. This is taken from a press release regarding the book… (Online source) […]

A while back Apprising Ministries ran a piece called Ravi Zacharias Answers “Can A Person Live A Sincere Christian Life As A Homosexual?” where you can hear Protestant evangelical apologist Zacharias say, “One of the greatest saints of recent memory was Henri Nouwen.” Just the other day an AM reader sent along to us the letter below which they […]

Not long ago Apprising Ministries brought out in Focus on the Family Promotes the New Evangelization of the Roman Catholic Church that the “Protestant” evangelical business ministry Focus on the Family (FotF) featured Christopher West who happens to be very versed in the apostate Roman Catholicism of the late John Paul II, yet another heretical pope who dared usurp the place of […]