Another Example of Why Disciples Can Be Relevant
So, I’m doing my usual reading and run across this headline, “Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?” I thought I was reading something from the Onion or from the Landover Baptist Church site, but no, it is from Religious Dispatches. This is another reason why our expression of Christian witness, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) can be a relevant witness of Gospel if we survive this time of reformation.
“Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?”
by Andrea R. Jain | October 27, 2010 | Religion DispatchesBe afraid. Yoga isn’t just about physical fitness and reduced stress. Evangelical leaders are increasingly warning that yoga is religious, though not in a good way, and that Christians must choose between Christianity and yoga. This view shot to mainstream attention recently when Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, warned Christians against the sin of yoga in a blog post that made headlines. But his comments were far from an isolated incident of evangelical Christian leaders inciting fear of yoga; Mohler simply took his place among the growing ranks of twenty-first century conservative Christian leaders with “yogaphobia.”