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Richard Rohr: Wise Sage or False Teacher? The Alisa Childers Podcast #90

12/27/2020

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Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest, author of several books, and the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His teachings are gaining influence, especially among millennials who grew up in the Evangelical church. He is particularly influential in the progressive Christian movement and is referred to as a spiritual father, hero, and mentor by well-known progressive voices. But what does he really believe? In today's video, I analyze Rohr's teachings regarding the gospel and focus especially on his view of the Bible, which he believes does not give a clear theology of God and is full of contradictions.

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4 Comments

Jeff Caminiti

1/13/2021 02:47:35 pm

Alisa, I have been subscribed to your YouTube channel now for quite some now. I just absolutely love what you’re talking about and has opened up my eyes to so many things within the church in our society and unfortunately even my parents.

I have some questions about some authors that I wondered if you would be able to shed some light on for me. Would it be possible to shoot me an email or possibly even a phone call to talk about some of these authors? I know about Richard Rohr, but there are some other ones that I would like to know about.
My email is [email protected]

Thank you so much for your time!

Heather

1/16/2021 07:49:09 pm

I just listened to episode 91 (I don't see a specific episode page for #91...so I'm posting it here since my comment is in regards to the segment with Marcia). I read David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself for my Marriage and Family Therapy Degree...in seminary. It has been over 15 years since I read it but I knew immediately which book Marcia was speaking of and we absolutely spent time slowly working through it. It's not a long book, it's rather short but a lot of emphasis was put on it. I find it interesting this book came up because in recent years, a number of things have come out of my Seminary Days that have caused me to scratch my head - conversations with fellow graduates I still have contact with, comments from professors & pastors, etc. I was young when I went through seminary. I was really busy and exhausted most of the time but I wonder now if it was God's grace....if He was protecting my heart from wandering down a side-path. The seminary was a wonderful school and it's quite possible many of the changes occurred after my time but I have never been more convinced of the need to diligently test everything against the Bible.

Joyce

2/2/2021 04:59:03 pm

Alisa,

I attended a conference of Richard Rohr several years ago with some church friends. His message was extremely alarming to me and I was dumbfounded as to how many people were buying into his flawed philosophy. Thank you for the expose. Love your videos!

Joyce C.

Lily

7/15/2021 03:43:45 pm

One of the most important people in my walk with God has a podcast now, and I was so excited to get to listen to him more.
Then he had a man on a year or two ago who talked about the Ennegram (I don't care enough to spell that right) ... I thought "Wow, he is being so polite to this insane garbage!" But then I realized the man whose books helped me, after 20 years of trying to understand forgiveness, an understanding of grace, which naturally led to helping me finally also understanding what it meant to even forgive an abusive parent, was truly interested in the Enneagram.

I haven't been back to the podcast for a while, went back today, and saw a guest's name that looked vaguely familiar. So before I listened, I searched Richard Rohr. (I only had to type two letters of your name before "Richard Rohr Alexa Childers" popped up :0))

My heart hurts. I know we can take the good we have learned from teachers who somehow went way off track, but knowing that he's talking to people like this, *promoting* them? I'm just fighting tears. I obviously don't want to mention this author yet, but so many people around my favorite musician who have fallen into this "Progressive Christianity", and saying he - I'm talking about the late Rich Mullins - would just love this crud? Well, it's overwhelmingly sad and frustrating.

This is not what Rich Mullins believed. He is so often used by people who never met him to advance Progressive Christianity, I think you did a show about a Meme, and I recognized it as being written by yet another guy who never met Rich, but has used his name to gain popularity and ...

Sorry. Shutting up now. I just don't even know where to go to church any more. Thank you for all of this, Alisa, you have definitely been given a lot of really important gifts for a very confusing time.

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