Weird Tract Number 67: "The Facts on the New Age Movement" by John Ankerberg and John Weldon

Troy Davis writes:

As a fan of fringe religion, I enjoyed watching John Ankerberg's Christian apologetics TV show back in the 1990s. Ankerberg had debates with various apostates and followers of creeds containing extrabiblical revelations. This 48-page booklet from 1988 takes on the New Agers.

It's a standard fundy take on the movement. The booklet received back cover plaudits from Dave Hunt (one-time collaborator with Ed Decker; for more on Decker, click here and here) as well as Hal Lindsey's then-sister-in-law Johanna Michaelsen who cashed in on the 80s Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic by claiming that she was a reformed-by-Christ former aide to a  "psychic surgeon" (I saw Michelsen on The 700 Club and she claimed that what she was doing was not sleight-of-hand flimflam but as a New Age healer, she supernaturally removed cancers from people and that she had been elbows deep in the bodies of her "patients"). The booklet discusses Michaelsen's story and treats it as real.  The last page has an ad for the hokey documentary Gods of the New Age (watch it here).

Note: This is one of a series of books Ankerberg wrote for Harvest House.  The imprint for Ankerberg's books makes use of a pun in his name. Here is the logo:

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