Well, at least Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP) isn’t according to Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic “Christian” Roshi Richard Foster: Contemplative Prayer immerses us into the silence of God. How desperately we in the modern world need this wordless baptism… Contemplative Prayer is the one discipline that can free us from our addiction to words. Progress in […]

This is an update and follow-up to the Apprising Ministries piece “From Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (SBC) All the Way to Renovare and Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster” originally posted 12/10/2006. Shortly after this article appeared the original links from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) website that were used within […]

Over at The American Prospect: Liberal Intelligence (*wink* an oxymoron, right?) we read that: Jay Bakker, son of the televangelist Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Bakker, visited Joel Osteen’s Lakewood mega-church in Houston, Texas, in an effort to enlist the church’s participation in the civil-rights organization Soulforce’s effort to foster dialogue between churches […]