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Part 1: Is Contemplative Prayer New Age?

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The Misuse of Scripture

"There isn't any model for it in Scripture at all," he says of the contemplative prayer movement. "It's not about being quiet so that you can somehow hear God's voice." The author is reading a book by one of the head honchos of the meditation movement, Ruth Haley Barton. Her mentor was a Buddhist nun and she wrote a great tribute to her when this woman died last year.

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