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Centurions of the New Age

A "humanitarian" blogger calls the Prayer of the Centurion (Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof) one of the "most destructive phrases in human history."

The Energy of the Universe Flows Around the Bishops' Blockage

REIKI BY ANY OTHER NAME?

Hurd Baruch with Moira Noonan

Tibetan Flags Over Berkeley

ON RELIGIOUS KITSCH & FALSE PAGANISM

Arturo Vasquez

People whose ideological forebears fought so hard to keep religion out of the public sphere are now flying Tibetan prayer flags.

On Retreat With Sister Rupp

EXERCISES IN TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Ginger Hutton

This popular author and conference speaker, with a master’s in transpersonal psychology, is an evangelist for New Age syncretism.

Human Sacrifice on the Altar of Gaia

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Like the eugenics juggernaut of a century ago, the 'deep ecology' juggernaut presents us with the same evil program: population control.

Our Pantheistic Sisters

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Review of Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology

Yoga & Christianity

ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?

Joel S. Peters

"An Ancient Structure to Beckon Gods"

The labyrinth is "a large, complex circle which is an ancient symbol of the Divine Mother, the God within, the Goddess..."

Pagans, Liturgists & The Transcendent

GUEST COLIMN

Dale Price

Errors & Deception in The Da Vinci Code

A BROWN OUT

Larry A. Carstens

New Age Traps

WHY BE SUCKERED?

Anne Feaster

Catholics need not look to revamped pagan religions for spiritual enrichment, especially since these religions contain grave error.

Quantum Spirituality

"Did you ever wonder why we no longer hear teaching on serious personal sin?"

Pagans or Apostates?

PLATO VS. DEWEY

Alice von Hildebrand

The Neo-Pagans Are Giving Ancient Paganism a Bad Name

SEND AWAY THE CLOWNS

Terence Gallagher

The rise of para-pagan cults is related to the demise of the classical basis of liberal education, and the loss of a common sense of what the pagans were.

A New Mary Magdalen

FROM THE DETRITUS OF ANCIENT GNOSTICISM

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

A new, unheard-of Magdalen emerges from the detritus of antiquity — unheard of by you and me because she comes straight out of the ancient Gnostics.

Fire Alarms in the Night

Stratford Caldecott calls for a "new movement" that amounts to a New Ager-Catholic dialogue.

Beware! The New Age Movement Is More Than Self-Indulgent Silliness

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF TOLERANCE

Lee Penn

New Age teachers invert Christian doctrine about sin, the Devil, and the Fall.

"Deja Vu All Over Again": The Return of Paganism

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph Collison

The Roman historian Livy observed: "We can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."

The United Religions Initiative, A Bridge Back to Gnosticism

"IF I'M WRONG, I'M DEAD WRONG" -- BISHOP SWING

Lee Penn

Episcopal Bishop Swing said the world needs “a global soul,” to be created by conferences, fundraising, and declarations.

The Infantile Illusion of Omnipotence & the Modern Ideology of Science

NOTES ON GNOSTICISM

Christopher Lasch

Renewed scholarly interest in gnosticism has been, for the most part, remarkably sympathetic, as if it represented an important corrective and alternative to Christianity.

Is Christianity the Same as Buddhism Underneath?

SEARCHING FOR THE REAL GOD

Thomas W. Case

By some stretch of the imagination, Buddhism can be chopped down to fit Christianity, but Christianity cannot be chopped down to fit Buddhism.