McLaren’s Position on Hell and Homosexuality

by Understand the Times with Roger Oakland Brian McLaren is viewed by many as a key leader of the Emerging Church Movement. The following interviews and the article will explain McLaren’s position on “hell” and “homosexuality”. Click here for interviews…

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Leadership Network Launched the Emerging Church Movement!

Many think that the Emerging Church movement was started by a bunch of young people who wanted a hip atmosphere at church … not so at all. According to an article in the recent edition of Criswell Theological Review,written by…

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Brennan Manning’s Ragamuffin Gospel: A Distortion of Grace

Brennan Manning, popular writer and speaker, is considered by many to be a kind of expert on the topic of God’s grace. Philip Yancey, editor for Christianity Today magazine, says “Brennan Manning [is] my spiritual director in the school of…

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Forum for Authentic Transformation Quite Revealing

Conversations Journal (a “Forum for Authentic Transformation”) is an offshoot of Psychological Studies Institute. The Journal’s target audience “is purposefully broad — all thoughtful, seeking followers of Christ who long for a complete transformation of soul and full restoration of…

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Interreligious Meeting Planned in Assisi

by Understand the Times with Roger Oakland  Twenty years after the World Day of Prayer for Peace, the Italian city of Assisi will again be a point of interreligious meeting and prayer on Sept. 4-5. The World Day that Pope…

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Enter the Labyrinth

by Let Us Reason Ministries (Mike Oppenheimer) Walking the labyrinth has become a popular spiritual exercise across the country and around the world. I first read of it in Leadership Magazine, a Christian publication and became a bit concerned, since…

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