by Don and Joy Veinot | May 31, 2018 | Death, Evangelical Left, Fear, Good News, Gospel, New Age, Rob Bell, Salvation, Suffering, Theological liberalism
The old saying is “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.” That is true when kids are rough housing and things go dangerously awry. But life can be that way too. Quite often, it seems, human beings go through life with little thought to what happens...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 21, 2018 | AIDS, Bill Hybels, Edification, Education, Emerging Church, Evangelism, Hermeneutics, MCOI Journal, New Age, Prayer of Jabez, Purpose Drive Life, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Spiritual AIDS, Spiritual arrogance, Summer 2005, T.D. Jakes, Volume 11, Willow Creek Community Church, Worldview
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal) In 1 Corinthians 14:8, the Apostle Paul drew a word picture for the Corinthian believers when he wrote: “For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?” This passage...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 25, 2016 | 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
(Originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2016 Issue of the MCOI Journal ) 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, I’m creating my own. I don’t believe that we humans can live...
by Don Veinot | Aug 23, 2012 | Black Liberation Theology, Brian McLaren, Culture and Society, Discernment, Evangelical Left, Politics, Rob Bell, Socialism, Theology
This may seem like an odd question but strikes me as being a good corollary to one that I have been asked quite frequently in recent weeks. The questions on this issue can be summed up in a recent email I received: So, in your opinion, which would be worse for...
by Don Veinot | Dec 1, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, General, Politics, Rob Bell, Socialism
Is the celebration of the national holiday called Thanksgiving a time of reflection and thanksgiving or merely the sound of the starting pistol in the race for buying stuff? The answers to this question vary and will be wide ranging. For some these days will be very...
by Don Veinot | Jul 28, 2011 | Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Rob Bell, Scripture, Socialism, Theology
I was talking with my partner in crime, Jonathon Miles, about this week’s blog and he mentioned a quote that C.S. Lewis had made about having first things first. In my trolling the Internet in search of the quote I stumbled across something that combined the quote...
