
DG writes: “
I saw a book called the Seven Great Prayers and I cannot find anything verifying if it is Christian or not. They have the prayers available in audio as well so that you can listen to them anywhere. The authors are Paul and Tracy McManus. One tip-off is that one of the prayers says something about "attracting" blessings or something like that. This leads me to believe it is another New Age gimmick masquerading as Christian just to trap unsuspecting individuals. Can you shed some light on this?"
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“Dryness and aridity may be a trial sent from
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In keeping with his catechesis on the family, Pope Francis turned to the subject of fatherhood during his General Audience yesterday, saying that we are now a “society without fathers” and warning about the dire consequences of allowing this to continue.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, who was fired for writing a book in which he expresses the biblical belief about homosexuality, has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming that he was discriminated against because of his religion.
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“Sometimes when I find myself spiritually
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“Leave at the door of the place where you
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Due to complaints about the New Age/occult content in the wildly successful book,
Jesus Calling, which claims to have been inspired by
God Calling, a book written by two “automatic writers” who were supposedly channeling God, publisher
Thomas Nelson has purged all references to this source from new editions of the book.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A battle is brewing in a northern California high school where parents discovered that an employee of a porn shop and a so-called “pleasure activist” are teaching sex ed at the school.
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On distractions in prayer:
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