Witnessing to Rastafarians (Part One: Background)
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal,...
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Oprah Winfrey and Her Self-Help Saviors: Making the New Age Normal
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 4 (2001). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...
Read MoreAlternative Medicine: The Mainstreaming of the Holistic Health Movement
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 1 (September-October 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team...
Read MoreVisualization: God-Given Power or New Age Danger?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help...
Read MoreVisualization: God-Given Power or New Age Danger?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 1 (Summer 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help...
Read MoreAgeless Body, Timeless Mind and Perfect Health by Deepak Chopra
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 3 (Winter 1994). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help...
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Therapeutic Touch: Healing Science or Psychic Midwife?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 1 (Summer 1995)....
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The Christian, Energetic Medicine, “New Age Paranoia”
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 14, number 03 (Winter 1992)....
Read MoreHolistic Health Care
The term “holistic health” refers to a wide range of alternative approaches to health care which emphasize spiritual and psychological as well as the physical dimensions to personal health. The holistic health...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga is physical yoga, and it is the variety of yoga that we most commonly encounter in the West. Indeed, many Westerners think of little else when they hear the word yoga. It is often promoted as a superior method of...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Tantra Yoga
Tantra is an esoteric (occult) religious tradition that originated in Hinduism but also exists in Buddhism and other Asian religions. Many orthodox Hindus regard it with suspicion or outright disdain because of its disregard...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga- What Is It?Kundalini yoga deliberately attempts to arouse and raise the kundalini, believed to be Shakti or creative divine energy, which sleeps at the base of the spine like a serpent, coiled in three and...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Raja Yoga
Raja or “royal” yoga is the method of seeking salvation through mind control. It is believed that the mind is a fine part of the body, or the body a gross part of the mind (such that the two words are often conjoined...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Jnana Yoga
Jnana yoga could be described as “yoga for intellectuals” or “yoga for philosophers.” It seeks salvation through intellectual knowledge and discrimination. Hindu philosophers Shankara and Ramanuja are the...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Karma Yoga
Karma yoga is yoga for idealists, humanitarians, activists, and ordinary people who want to pursue salvation but are unable to pursue monastic life. It seeks salvation through good works. These works can be social service or...
Read MoreApproaches to Yoga: Bhakti Yoga
Bhakti yoga seeks salvation through the path of devotion to a personal representation of God. During the centuries that preceded Patanjali, India had been dominated by the atheistic or nontheistic philosophies of original...
Read MoreYoga Philosophy: Eight Limbs of Yoga
Classical yoga practitioners are not interested in making their minds permanently blank, but rather to so discipline their minds that they no longer identify thoughts and sensory perceptions with their sense of self. This is...
Read MoreYoga History: Historical and Conceptual Foundations
The yoga system was reputedly developed by the grammarian and Hindu sage Patanjali most likely between the third and second century B.C. Archaeological finds suggest that yoga in some form has existed since around 3,000 B.C.,...
Read MoreWhat is Yoga?
Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word yug, which means “to yoke.” This is a term we’re familiar with from the Bible (Phil. 4:2; Matt. 11:9). A yoke is a crossbar that joins two draft animals at the neck so...
Read MoreIs Raja Yoga Religiously Neutral?
The problem with George Mahoney’s position quoted above is his assumption that raja yoga can be used for Christian purposes just as effectively as for pantheistic Hindu or other Eastern mystical purposes. The Hindu...
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