Hello, this is Haley. Welcome back to Kindled. Today I have a very interesting conversation for you with Melissa Doherty all about New Thought. Now, you probably haven't heard of this, but you've definitely heard the actual teachings of New Thought. If you've ever seen an episode of Oprah or even really just heard like mainstream

Christian lingo around things like affirmations or manifestation or health prosperity gospel,

those types of things. It is a very interesting conversation and Melissa has written a book that is really going to

reveal and unpack all the teachings of this movement.

And this conversation is going to give you a bird's eye view of what it is.

So with that, here is my conversation with Melissa Doherty.

Melissa, thank you so much for being here today.

Yeah, thanks for having me on.

So I would love for you to introduce yourself to listeners.

Tell us who you are and what you do.

Yeah, so most people might know me from my YouTube channel.

I have a YouTube channel where I cover, I call it a mixed bag of theology, satire,

you know, anything and everything in that regard. But lately, it's been more focused on new age,

new thought, how that's coming into the church, things like that. I also, I'm on Instagram,

all the socials, but most people would know me from my YouTube channel as an apologist.

Yeah. So tell us about your background, what brought you to the topics of New Age and New Thought. What's kind of your

origin story there? Yeah. Origin story is a kind of a threefold conversation because it's like it is

with all of us, right? I always get kind of jealous of people that have this, this just one lane

testimony story. But yeah, for me, I mean, I grew up in what I thought would have been a Christian household.

And this is very important to understand later on in my story.

I grew up with a lot of spiritual beliefs that fascinated me.

For example, my mom would say that she would see.

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