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Penelope Moon says in response to the review of Bob Spalding's article:

I coordinate the Quiet Place programme. Spirituality and spiritual intelligence is an important part of the training and is interwoven into the fabric of everything we do. We are rapidly spreading. As you rightly say there is a huge hunger and need for people to feel they have permission to explore this area of themselves.

Philip Johnson has sent in this contribution in response to the review of John Drane's book:

Very briefly I am the CEO of Global Apologetics & Mission Ltd, a new ministry in Australia. GAM sponsors "The Community of Hope" stalls in the International Festival for Mind*Body*Spirit, where dialogue between Christians and new age seekers occurs. We employ incarnational principles of mission to reach new age, cultists, devotees of world religions etc. We do not yet have a web page.

This September Lion Publishing will release two books that dovetail with what John Drane has discussed.
 
1. Ross Clifford & Philip Johnson, Jesus & The Gods of the New Age: Communicating Christ in Today's Spiritual Supermarket.

 This book recreates dialogues we have had with new age seekers. It demonstrates an incarnational model of mission and apologetic with new age (in contrast to treating new age as a heresy/as demonic). Includes models of how to develop both ministries with new age and neo-pagans.

 
2. John Drane, Ross Clifford & Philip Johnson, Beyond Prediction: The Tarot & Your Spirituality.
The book is one you hand on to new age seekers. The origins of the cards are shown to be influenced by the Church and that originally were not used for fortune telling (this happens after the French Revolution). Through the book the new age search for meaning is affirmed, and the cards' biblical symbols are explained. The cards are used (like Paul in Athens) to share the gospel. This book is an extension of what is seen in theory in the McDonaldization book.
Before prejudging the tarot book, wait till it is released and see how it is an application of the "altar to an unknown god" (Acts 17).
 

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