A friend of mine, Jim Martindale, sent a message with a link to an article by Paul Proctor entitled, "Contemplative Spirituality - The Latest 'Christian' Craze".  I've read it, and it's excellent -- so wanted to pass it along to you.  Here is how Paul begins:  "The greatest danger to the church today is not the atheist, the agnostic, the liberal, the humanist, the Marxist or even the Muslim extremist, but rather the "Christian" who subtly blends truth and lie resulting in a designer deity and discipline that finds common ground with the very enemies of Christ so as to become modish and marketable to the mainstream.  When one leavens the Christian faith with New Age teachings and practices, the result is a sacrilegious synthetic that is every bit as damning as the New Age itself, minus the stigma, rendering it more perilous than its predecessor precisely because of its churchy disguise. By way of the Hegelian Dialectic, many professing Christians are now embracing and promoting the hottest new hybrid to hit the church today, called "Contemplative Spirituality," that brings certain beliefs and practices from Eastern Mysticism into otherwise Christian worship to effectively permit, provide and promote what biblical Christianity does not.  Thesis (Christianity) + Antithesis (New Age) = Synthesis (Contemplative)..."

To continue reading click right here: http://www.newswithviews.com/PaulProctor/proctor104.htm

Other Paul Proctor articles include: Religious Relativism, Hating Holiness, Bedridden Believers, Good Intentions, and The Power of Money; all interesting titles -- don't you think?  :-)  Mark Zacharias