Wednesday, November 7, 2007

BIGOT ALERT: James K. Walker, leader of the Watchman Fellowship

James K. Walker is a proud ex-Mormon who converted to fundamental Christianity. He considers himself an expert in the field of Christian counter-cult evangelism, apologetics, and discernment. He is president of the Watchman Fellowship, an organization that develops books, videos, and materials to "expose" cultists and other religions that Walker disagrees with. The website features material to help fundamental Christians convert those they believe belong to cults. This includes material focused on slandering the many religious groups, particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, New Age, Occult, Scientology, and the Unification Church.

It also targets celebrities as Tom Cruise, Madonna, Dan Brown and Oprah Winfrey. The owner of the site uses his bigotry as a platform to pander for money and donations by selling books, pamphlets, and videos.

The article Chicken Soup for the Soul Reviewed is a great example of the kind of exposing that the organization does.

In A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul can be found at least 38 New Age or Mormon contributors or attributions, including M. Scott Peck, Steve Andreas, Sai Baba, Martin Buber, Gandhi, William James, Joseph Campbell, Leo Buscaglia, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Benjamin Hoff, Ken Blanchard (Please See Update), Canfield, Hansen, and T.M. promoter Harold Bloomfield.

In A 3rd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul are at least 23 New Age or Mormon contributors or attributions. And in Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul, there are at least 20 New Age contributors, with several of them having multiple stories (as in all the books in the series).

Some of the authors or references in these last two volumes are Dr. Bernie Siegel (six times), Peter McWilliams, Norman Cousins, Jonas Salk, Joan Borysenko, Marianne Williamson, Fr. John Groff, Alan Cohen, Les Brown, and two Mormon contributors - Art Berg and Hal Manwaring.

And finally (for now), in Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul, at least 27 New Age and Mormon authors or attributions are found, including a "psychic", two Transcendental Meditation trainers, a Unity minister, and a shaman.

Chicken Soup for the Working Soul has at least 42 New Age and Mormon contributors and attributions, including Joseph Campbell, Jean Houston, Pierre Telhard de Chardin, Gerald Janpolski, Meister Eckhart, Buddha, and Ernest Holmes.

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