Mennonites Promote Goddess Sophia
Why is Mennonite Church Canada selling books by Joyce Rupp? See here:
http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/resourcecentre/QuickSearch?search=joyce+rupp&Search=Search
(6 books and 1 tape)
Joyce Rupp has a degree from the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Transpersonal psychology has to do with your “higher self.” It is the study of experiences, beliefs and practices that suggest that the sense of self can extend beyond our personal or individual reality.
Joyce Rupp can be found here on the Living Spiritual Teachers Project where it says that she is a ‘sensitive teacher of the wisdom of Sophia.’ In fact, she has written Prayers to the Feminine Wisdom, or Goddess Sophia, here.
Some of the sessions she teaches at her spirituality retreats are about growing spiritually, listening to God, igniting the fire, servant leaders, etc. She even quotes Thomas Merton. Isn’t it interesting that Joyce Rupp’s New Age spirituality sounds so much like the spiritual formation that is being brought into today’s churches through Leadership Network, Willow Creek Association, and Purpose Driven resources?
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