Article Summary:

In various venues Harvest House President Robert Hawkins and authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon have misled the public regarding the local churches and facts surrounding the litigation over the Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions.

ECNR: A Response to Further Public Misrepresentations by John Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Robert Hawkins, Jr.

October 23, 2006

When we filed an appeal asking the Texas Supreme Court to overturn the flawed summary judgment decision in our lawsuit over the Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions, publisher Robert Hawkins and authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon actively engaged in a public relations campaign to further mislead the Christian public through press releases, letters to Christianity Today, and statements on radio broadcast interviews. Because of the public nature of their attack, we felt compelled to respond publicly as well to correct their misrepresentations.

Concerning us:

  • They hypocritically cast our criticism of the organized system of Christianity as being anti-Christian when Harvest House’s own books speak of Christianity as “a religion of misguided people,” “anemic,” “flaccid,” and “heavily involved in the occult.”
  • They tarred us with an accusation that we are litigious in spite of the fact that we have filed significantly fewer lawsuits than Harvest House itself.

Concerning the present case:

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