Category: Current Issues

JAMES EMERY WHITE PROMOTES CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM »

Concerning the 19th Annual National Conference on Preaching (NCP) Jim Luppachino of Watcher’s Lamp has written a timely piece called James Emery White’s Purpose Driven Mysticism. Now in this article Apprising Ministries examines the issue further and shows you beyond the shadow of a doubt that White is indeed promoting Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.

ROB BELL AND HIS ECHOES OF RAY VANDERLAAN »

“My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray, They have made them turn aside on the mountains; They have gone along from mountain to hill, And have forgotten their resting place.” (Jeremiah 50:6, NASB) Heading Into Jewish Kabbalistic Mystic Spiritual Bondage Many are new to the mystical Messianic musings of Rob Bell, rock […]

SEEDS OF COMPASSION EVENT: DALAI LAMA WITH ROB BELL AND DOUG PAGITT »

TONY JONES OF THE EMERGING CHURCH STRIKES OUT »

TONY CAMPOLO AND THE POWER OF DOUBLESPEAK »

DOUG PAGITT, ROB BELL, DALAI LAMA AND THE INTERSPIRITUAL SEEDS OF COMPASSION EVENT »

In the Apprising Ministries article Seeds of Compassion Event: Rob Bell, Doug Pagitt with Dalai Lama I began to take a look at this event in Seattle, which runs from April 11-15, where Emergent Church pastors Doug Pagitt and his “friend” Rob Bell are joining themselves publicly with the Buddhist icon Dalai Lama (essentially means […]

NEO-ORTHODOXY, POSTLIBERALISM AND THE EMERGING CHURCH »

JOHN SHELBY SPONG TO ENTER THE “CHRIST CONSCOUSNESS” »

Taking a step ever closer to messed up mystic Matthew Fox, here is retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong—a leading theologian in the Cult of Liberal Theology—praising Deepak Chopra on the back of Chopra’s latest book The Third Jesus—The Christ We Cannot Ignore: In this book a man shaped by the religions of the East […]

CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY CONTINUES BATTLE OVER POSTMODERNISM »

OPRAH WINFREY A CHRISTIAN? »

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. (2 Corinthians 11:4) The New Spirituality Swallowing All Religions Into A […]

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