This is a caution against mantra meditation (contemplative prayer) in the church. In mantra meditation, a word or phrase is repeated for several minutes until an altered state of consciousness…
Mantra Meditation in the Cults
Category: false teaching
“Step into My Parlor,” Said the Spider
People often defend practices like yoga and visualization, saying that such things are actually neutral . . . and are problems only if we put religious aspects into them. Is…
Small Doses of Poison
“Beware of supposing that a teacher of religion is to be trusted, because although he holds some unsound views, he yet ‘teaches a great deal of truth.’ Poison is always most dangerous when…
Can You Spell Cemetery?
In my book Devotions by Dead People, I wrote that years ago people used to be able to spell the word cemetery. But at some point, you began seeing it…
Humble Enough to Check
A young minister friend didn’t quite believe that Christians are drifting into dangerous false teaching. I challenged him to survey his church members to see what they read for spiritual…