Like golf, where you call penalties on yourself, capitalism is partly self–reglementing, but with the abandonment of Christian morals in the West, the free enterprise system has fallen into disrepute. The only real savior is Jesus and a spiritual revival, but many now turn to pagan spirituality where there is no conscience, and to a […]
56: His Truth Goes Marching On
Yesterday, Good Friday, 2009, I had one of the most blessed Easter experiences of my life. In the Immanuelkirche, an old, liberal Lutheran church in downtown Berlin, I attended a two–hour performance of Bach’s Johannes–Passion. On the way into Berlin, I talked with my daughter, Eowyn, about the difficulties she and her husband, David, face […]
Rip Van Winkle Revisited
My mother is ninety years old. She has vision and hearing issues, but her mind is razor sharp. We live in different parts of the country and being her only child I make several airplane trips a year to be with her. We talk almost every day by phone. A consistent topic she raises is, […]
Pagan Spirituality
1. THE GREAT AMERICAN REVOLUTION The Red Coats stole your taxes but the “no–coat Hippies” have stolen your soul. In other words, the most radical American Revolution took place not in 1776 but in the last generation of the twentieth century. In these last thirty or so years we have witnessed the First Great Awakening–of […]
Spirit Wars in the Third Millennium
When the moon is in the seventh house And Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius (from the smash–hit musical HAIR, 1967) The eschatological musings of Aquarian gurus concerning the dawning of a New spiritually–pagan Age can […]
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Beto, We Love You
by Dr. Peter Jones | October 18, 2019Reality stares us in the face. It broke open the other night when Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke stated without hesitation, for the first time in a national public forum, that if elected president he would call for the elimination of tax exemption for all religious groups—churches, schools and religious charities—who failed to honor the […]
Confronting Neo-Paganism Part 3
by Dr. Peter Jones | September 26, 2019The Christian Response A. Make Clear the Issues of Cosmology Christian theologians, in this time of great confusion, must define the timeless struggle in order to establish essential theological clarity. The ultimate choice is not between the old and the new, the traditional and the progressive, the cool and the uncool, the modern and the […]