PAULA NEAL MOONEY

By Paula Neal Mooney Did anyone catch what the ladies of The View said about The Secret ? Us east-coast-time viewers were pre-empted by President Bush’s speech today. My TiVo was poised to play their views of The Secret when W cut in. Googling "The Secret on The View" has gotten me little, as has going to The View’s website. No secret there. Anyhoo, this all comes in God’s perfect timing as it were, since The Secret has been on my mind since I first saw it on Oprah. You may remember when I asked my readers, “ Is The Secret Anti-Christian? ” and got a boatload of good responses from The Secret supporters and detractors. I still haven’t seen the DVD, nor watched The Secret fully online. Therefore when this reviewer for this sponsored post ordered a $75 review on my blog about The Official Secret Seminar , my first knee-jerk instinct was to turn it down. Instead, I accepted it, wearily wondering to myself: Am I selling my soul for $48.75? But I watched and prayed, watched...

by Paula Neal Mooney ...or, more precisely, out of my Spirit, that is. I had the pleasure of interviewing Israel Houghton of the popular group Israel & New Breed probably two years ago now. "I did that inteview on my knees I was so grateful," I told my former copy desk chief friend Jim Kavanagh, formerly with the Akron Beacon Journal , now proudly with CNN. I probably should have mentioned that it was a phone interview with Israel "Iz" Houghton , but I'm sure he got my point... Anyway, Israel was so gracious to grant a newbie like me my first "celebrity" interview. He'd just returned from South Africa, where he'd recorded the amazing Alive in South Africa CD and DVD. Israel confirmed some of his dramatic testimony: White mother impregnated by a black man, kicked out of the house, contemplating abortion till she ran into a woman who told her "You are not forgotten" and led her in the sinner's prayer right on a California s...