Recommended Responses to The Secret and its "Law of Attraction"

The False Teaching of The Secret

Kerby Anderson
http://www.probe.org/hot-topics/the-false-teaching-of-the-secret.html
The message of The Secret and The Law of Attraction is wildly popular. But it's also seductive, wrong, and spiritually dangerous.

 

The Secret: Creating One's Reality

Russ Wise
http://www.probe.org/content/view/1540/264/
Former Probe Research Associate and Speaker Russ Wise provides an in-depth analysis of The Secret’s "Law of Attraction": recycled Eastern/New Age philosophy in materialistic garb that appeals to our self-indulgent desires. Russ examines the teachings of Rhonda Byrne and her stable of “Master Teachers” to show how they contradict God’s word. . . and reality.

 

First Person: The Secret

Don Whitney
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=25077
Dr. Whitney, professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, provides a fresh and biblical response to the heretical teachings of the runaway best-seller.

 

The Secret Exposed

Why Oprah and millions of readers can be wrong.
Mel Lawrenz
http://www.ctlibrary.com/46138
This commentary from Christianity Today offers piercing perspective on the self-indulgent, anti-biblical teachings of The Secret.