Why we disdain feel-good spirituality but shouldn't.
Mark Galli | posted 5/03/2007 09:25AM
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"The Secret" is out | New Age phenomenon claims you can have anything you want. (CBS News)
The power of negative thinking | We Americans believe instinctively in the power of positive thinking. But the key, it seems to me, is actually negative thinking. (The New York Times)
A giant doom magnet | So I was sitting around watching ''Oprah'' yesterday afternoon when I realized how I could stop W. and Crazy Dick from blowing up any more stuff. (Maureen Dowd, The New York Times)
Self-help's slimy 'Secret' | It's the publishing phenomenon of the year so far, a small book with a parchment-brown cover engraved with the image of a red wax seal. (The Washington Post)
Oprah's ugly secret | By continuing to hawk "The Secret," a mishmash of offensive self-help clichés, Oprah Winfrey is squandering her goodwill and influence, and preaching to the world that mammon is queen. (Salon)
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i think its a disgrace the "SECRET" is really not a secret, this is recycled self-help and many readers are forking over lots of dough for this when they have already known all along the power of positive thinking.norman vincent peale has already written a book about this,at least make the book and dvds economical.wake up people your being ripped off again this is nothing new.shame on the authors.
Elizabeth
Posted: May 12, 2007 9:49 AM
Is praying just a misguided form of positive thinking? This boook wants one to believe that "if you want it you can get it" not "God will get it for you".
Tim Bourgeois
Posted: May 08, 2007 2:31 PM
I think I understand what Mark Galli is trying to accomplish with this thoughtful response to The Secret, but I could not help but wonder if Paul would have bothered with identifying the so-called positive elements from the latest "wind of doctrine" blowing through the church in his day.
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