Recently in Tony Campolo To Enlighten Southern Baptists In Virginia over at Apprising Ministries we brought to your attention that Tony Campolo will be featured speaker at the “185th Annual Meeting of the BGAV” for the Baptist General Association of Virginia coming up November 11-12.

That post also provided the links to a plethora of materials concerning Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism along with a Recommended Reading section from the Virginia Baptist Mission Board that features a number of highly questionable sources. Now in this post AM references one Campolo’s earlier Beliefnet articles, “Mystical Encounters for Christians,” as it concerns his own testimony about the CSM “discipline” of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP).

Therein this “Progressive Evangelical,” as Campolo’s billed, gives us quite a bit of detail pertaining to his view about CCP and his personal practice of it. But before we look at that it’s important to introduce you a bit to what we’re talking about with the term “Red Letter Christian”; how it also relates to Campolo’s being a “Progressive Evangelical,” and the agenda being forged by these progressive neo-Gnostics.