The Emergent Village blog features a post from Messiah College professor, Jenell Williams Paris, who claims that Eckhart Tolle's teachings helped her through grief. She asks whether Eckhart can make us better Christians. Apparently, as long as someone doesn't claim to be a Christian, we don't have to critique their beliefs and their teachings can be viewed as potential guides through life.

 I once sat in a classroom for a course called Life's Search for Meaning. It was a required class or I wouldn't have taken it. One of the texts used was On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. In the class was a woman who was losing her husband to Lou Gherig's disease. The book was absent any Gospel hope whatsoever and was based in a complete humanistic framework. During the class discussions she talked about how much the course was helping her get through her husband's illness. The point is, she wasn't really being helped spiritually. She was being taught things that were not true about death and the hereafter, and to look within oneself for help to get through difficulties. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross was not a safe guide for grief and loss, but was presented as such. I find it dangerous that Jenell Williams Paris is introducing a lot of people to the writings of Eckhart Tolle and endorsing them as helpful. There is no discernment today among emergents who have discarded the plumb line for truth, the Word of God. It can only get worse from here as the blind continue to lead the blind down a very twisted and dark path that is absent the light of God's Word.