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Eve’s Pagan Daughters: Exposing Counterfeits w/ Doreen Virtue
Show: Contending for the Word • Date: November 4, 2025 • Host: Dave Jenkins • Guest: Doreen Virtue
Show Summary
Dave Jenkins welcomes Doreen Virtue to discuss her new book Eve’s Pagan Daughters and to expose how counterfeit spiritualities New Age mysticism, mindfulness-as-meditation, contemplative practices, and goddess worship seduce many, especially those wounded by trauma. Together they point to the sufficiency of Christ and Scripture as the only sure path to real peace and protection.
- Trauma, dissociation, and why “counterfeit peace” feels persuasive.
- Why mindfulness/contemplative techniques conflict with being sober-minded.
- How vague theology and partial truths deceive.
- Practical, Scripture-first Bible intake for wounded hearts.
- Why churches must preach the gospel clearly and teach spiritual warfare.
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Scripture & Resources
Key Texts: Genesis 3; Ephesians 6:10–18; 1 Peter 5:8; Philippians 4:6–9; Romans 1:16.
- Book: Eve’s Pagan Daughters (Amazon)
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Guest
Doreen Virtue is the host of the New Age to Christ podcast and the author of Eve’s Pagan Daughters. She shares her testimony of leaving New Age deception and points women to Christ and to sound, Scripture-saturated discipleship. Find her podcast and her articles at her at her page at Servants of Grace.
Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
