I have always wondered where Oprah fell in the area of Christianity. It seems early on that she was a believer but over the last several years, she has had more and more “spiritual” authors, guest, and statements that made me wonder if she was more New Age or even a Universalist.
In surfing today, I came across this video by accident that seems to answer this curiosity on mine. I get leery of clips being used because they can clearly be taken out of context. However, it seems clear to me that plenty of context was left here to make a determination. The position she offers is clearly universalist in nature and contradictory to the teachings of the Scripture. I guess I got my answer….
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.” John 14: 6-7a
Emerging Conservative 
Could you please clarify what you mean by universalism? Universalism (the Christian variety) is, from my understanding, the belief that eventually God will bring everyone into reconciliation with Himself. It doesn’t have anything to do with the idea that “all paths are equally valid” (pluralism) which is what Oprah appears to advocate.
See, I have it defined as the other way around……
Universilists that I have been in contact with celebrate any understanding of coming to God. That all have merit and are different paths to that God, whatever we call them.
The main camp I have heard that Jesus draws all to Him at the end of this life no matter what decisions we make during our life is from certain Emergent leaders.
Like any term, I’m sure there other understandings so good question to clearify.
The group that puts this video out is advertising a book called “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid” and are rather fundamentalist in their notions. Their manipulation of opinion into fact is extremely suspect to me. Just a thought.
I appreciate the heads up on that. The only thing is the video seems to not be manipulated or out of context so while the source may be suspect, do you know of anything in this video that might be as well?