With EckhartTolle’s book, things become clearer. This is not, like The Secret, a cheap, “self-help” marketing job to make money for Tolle and his patron, Oprah Winfrey (who obviously does not need it). This measured attempt to describe how the New Spirituality meets the very deep needs of the human soul and how this vision will bring the only hope to an imploding, self-destructive planet, is now proposed to the “global community” by Oprah—“the most exciting thing I’ve ever done and a fulfillment of my life’s purpose”—and will certainly ensure that A New Earth will make an enormous impact on our spirituality-hungry world.

Esoteric (that is, inner, hidden) spirituality is going public. The official web site of The Secret announces “a new era for humankind,” kick-started by the sale of two million copies since the book’s appearance in November, 2006. The secret kept since Babylonian times is now available on Amazon.com. So what’s the rush?

Christian Newswire -- The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 23, 2008 ruled that the city council of Fredericksburg, Virginia had proper authority to require "non-sectarian" prayer content and exclude council-member Rev. Hashmel Turner from the prayer rotation because he prayed "in Jesus' name."

The following statement is being posted per the instruction of Rev. Charles McGowan, Chairman of the Institutional Personnel Committee.

The administration and Prof. Peter Enns wish to announce that they have arrived at mutually agreeable terms, and that, as of 1 August, 2008, Prof. Enns will discontinue his service to Westminster Theological Seminary after fourteen years.