Interview with Don Veinot Part 1

In this episode of Viewpoint on Mormonism, host Bill McKeever interviews Don Veinot, president of Evangelical Missions to Non-Christian Religions (EMNR) and leader of Midwest Christian Outreach. The conversation centers on Don’s blog post, 'Is Liberalism Another Religion?', which draws a powerful parallel between the theological shift described by 20th-century theologian John Gresham Machen in his 1923 book *Christianity and Liberalism* and the current state of both mainstream Christianity and Mormonism. McKeever and Veinot argue that liberalism—both in academia and in modern church culture—has abandoned core Christian doctrines by replacing biblical truth with human-centered ethics, effectively creating a new religion. They extend this critique to Mormonism, asserting that despite its claim to be Christian, it distorts foundational doctrines like salvation by grace, the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement, and the nature of sin. Drawing from Paul’s confrontation with the Judaizers in Galatia, they emphasize that any system requiring human effort to complete salvation is not Christianity but a religion of merit. The discussion underscores the urgency for Christians to recognize and defend the true gospel, not out of hostility toward individuals, but out of love for truth and a commitment to biblical integrity.