From their official website, the Wild Goose festival “is a community gathered at the intersection of justice, spirituality, music and art. Our main annual event is a 4-day, outdoor festival hosted each summer in North Carolina.” Among many others, the speakers for 2013 include Emergent leaders Brian McLaren, Phyllis Tickle and Philip Yancey. Previous speakers…
Category: Fascism
Emergent Deconstruction, Train Tracks to Auschwitz
Postmodern liberalism, which has slithered into the Church with the Emergent movement, shares intellectual roots with fascism. One of the most popular postmodernist tendencies within aesthetics is deconstruction. Deconstruction is a postmodern and Emergent tactic of textual analysis, typically literary critique, that questions presuppositions, ideological underpinnings, hierarchical values and power structures within any given text. Deconstructive…
Special Needs Child Removed from Steven Furtick’s Elevation Church
And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come unto me, and do not forbid them: for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:13,14)….
Postmodernism, Fascism, and the Church: Dr. Gene Edward Veith
While fascism was militarily defeated in WWII, the ideology of fascism is alive and well in some of the most unsuspected areas of our society. Dr. Gene Edward Veith is Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College and author of Modern Fascism: The Threat to the Judeo-Christian Worldview. Dr. Veith explores the fascist…