The Sabbatical Series: 5 Ways Progressive Christianity and New Age Spirituality Are Kind of the Same Thing
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
During my Sabbatical, I wanted to post some short podcasts that only reached a limited number of people several years ago. They are short answers to tough apologetics and theological questions. There are 30 in total that we will be releasing every day. I hope you enjoy. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, |
| 0:06.4 | discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness and truth and we are going to continue to do that even while I'm on sabbatical and not |
| 0:15.1 | recording full-length episodes until after the new year. But as we were going |
| 0:19.6 | through some old content we realized that there were some posts that only went out to a select group of |
| 0:24.2 | listeners and many of you, if you've been following the podcast for the past two or three years, |
| 0:29.5 | have not heard these posts and these are short answers to tough theological and apologetics |
| 0:34.6 | questions so we're going to be bringing a new one to you every day during sabbatical |
| 0:38.2 | here's today's. Think about the phrase new age. What comes to mind? Old documentaries of hippies at |
| 0:56.0 | Woodstock experimenting with LSD and yoga? Shirley McClain holding a cluster of |
| 1:00.9 | crystals on the cover of Time magazine back in the 80s? |
| 1:04.0 | Depakchopra teaching Oprah how to move things with her mind in the 90s? |
| 1:08.0 | As old or out of touch as these images may seem, |
| 1:11.0 | new-age beliefs are hotter than ever and have permeated our culture but with |
| 1:14.9 | a slick new image. The psychic hotline of the 80s has been replaced by Winsome Hipster |
| 1:20.1 | Gurus who have traded robes for skinny jeans, often translating Eastern religious ideas |
| 1:25.2 | into Christianese. |
| 1:27.3 | Many Christians aren't even aware of how New Age beliefs have infiltrated Christendom |
| 1:31.8 | through the Progressive Church. |
| 1:33.8 | It wasn't until I recently did a study of New Age spirituality that I realized how much Progressive |
| 1:38.8 | Christianity has in common with it. |
| 1:41.9 | Here are five ways progressive Christianity and New Age |
| 1:44.9 | spirituality are kind of the same thing. Number one, the redefinition or abandonment of |
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