1. Alpha
2. New Leaven
3. The Sword of the Spirit
4. Life in the Spirit Seminar
5. The Toronto Blessing

• “Alpha course” (Wikipedia); and “Alpha – Catholic” (alphausa.org/catholic – Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa: “In my opinion Alpha accomplishes an incredible task, in making people interested in faith and making faith relevant to the modern man.”
  Critiques:
  • “The Alpha Course – an Evaluation,” by William J. Cork, D.Min. (CatholicCulture.org 2017) – a Catholic critique.
  • Eric Sammons, “The Protestantization of the New Evangelization” (1P5, September 18, 2017) – a Catholic critique.
  • Stephen Hunt (professor of Sociology, University of West of England, Bristol, UK), The Alpha Enterprise: Evangelism in a Post-Christian Era (Ashgate, 2004; Routledge, 2004) – The Tablet: “… a thorough and critical sociological assessment of Alpha… a fascinating look below the surface of a phenomenon which Hunt fairly describes as having ‘impacted UK churches and thousands worldwide on an impressive scale.’”
  • Chris Hand, “The Alpha Course” (Cross+Word, © 1995-2013 Tricia Tillin of Banner Ministries: http://www.banner.org.uk/) – a British Evangelical critique
  • Tricia Tillin, “Looking at — THE ALPHA COURSE” (The Times, May 11, 1996, via Banner Ministries, UK).
  • “The Dangers Of The Alpha Course” (Apologetics Coordination Team, “Deception in the Church”) – North Carolina Evangelical critique.
  • Paul Likoudis, “Alpha and the New Evangelization” (CatholicCulture.org, originally published in The Wanderer, March 7, 2002) – Catholic critique.
  • Church Militant panel discussions on Alpha for Catholics, with a free-wheeling critique by Bradley Eli, Christine Niles, Simon Rafe, Michael Voris, and others. (Note: the full video, in most cases, is available to only for Premium Members, at a cost of $10/month):
    • “Alpha Is Not Catholic” (The Download, December 2, 2016)
    • “Alpha: Protestant Catholicism” (Download, December 5, 2017)
    • “Dumbed-Down Catholicism” (Download, December 6, 2017)
    • “More on Alpha” (Download, December 7, 2017)
    • “Alpha Exposed” (Download, December 8, 2017)
  • Peter O’Dwyer, “Mic’d Up” (Church Militant, January 29, 2016) – Michael Voris interviews Michael Hitchborn of the Lepanto Institute about the Alpha program (for full video, see “The Tyranny of Emotion“).
  • “The Alpha Program” (Church Militant) – Addendum includes a directive to catechists regarding the program “Alpha in a Catholic Context” by Raymond Cardinal Burke.
• “New Leaven” – offers a program purporting to be the “next step” beyond Alpha, “an initiative of the New Evangelization fostering profound conversion and integrated Catholic formation” – review forthcoming.
• “The Sword of the Spirit” — “… a growing network of more than 82 lay Christian communities around the world [with] a common vision, way of life, and spiritual culture[and] about 12,500 adult members plus about 5,000 children ….”
  • “Sword of the Spirit Policy Notebook” (Scribd) – Psychologist John Flaherty says that before you join the Sword of the Spirit, you should read this once-secret document, which he describes as “the most signifiant document to emerge from the 1991 Pastoral Visitation of Bishop Albert Ottenweller into the Sword of the Spirit Community, Servants of Christ the King of Steubenville, Ohio.”
  • “And Scales Fell from His Eyes: A Former Coordinator Describes the ‘Dysfunctional’ Nature of Life in The Sword Of The Spirit” (Scribd) – Deacon Kieth Fournier’s statements (1990-1991), with an introduction by John Flaherty.
• Life in the Spirit Seminar Team Manual, Part 1, PDF File (Catholic Edition, Revised December 2015, Renewal Ministries) – Here are some illuminating Notes and Quotations (PDF File) taken from Part 1 of the 1979 Catholic Edition published by Servant Publications.
• “The Toronto Blessing: A Little Treatise,” by Colin B. Donovan, STL (EWTN Library, 1998, 2000) – treats of charismatic graces (in general), discernment, Toronto Blessing (in particular), History of this anointing from Reinhard Bonnke to Rodney Howard-Browne to Randy Clark to John Arnott to Marc Dupont, Eleanor Mumford, Steve Hill, John Kilpatrick, etc. [See also Part 3 under the “Videos” tab on the “Toronto Blessing.”]