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		<title>THE VOTE IS IN: Boy Scouts vote to allow openly practicing homosexual members</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CHILDREN AT RISK!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY The Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to allow gay youth to participate in scouting. The historic vote, with 60% in favor, signals another shift in American public opinion about homosexuality but still leaves the organization with many future hurdles. &#8220;It brings the Boy Scouts back into the American mainstream,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian McLaren  Asks For Money For: &#8220;broad-based, diverse, and deep Christian movement&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11724</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LTRP Note: Brian McLaren, one of the original &#8220;Terra Nova&#8221; emergent leaders, is asking followers to send substantial amounts of money for a mystery project that McLaren says will go toward a &#8220;broad-based, diverse, and deep Christian movement.&#8221; Lighthouse Trails has done extensive research on Brian McLaren for nearly 10 years. Please refer to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hobby Lobby Back in Court &#8211; Birth Control Coverage Up for Federal Appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11720</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miscellaneous News Source</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kristen Wyatt CNS News DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moody&#8217;s Pastors&#8217; Conference Teaching Lectio Divina This Week &#8211; And Seven Years of Warning by Lighthouse Trails Go Unheeded</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11691</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 20-23, Moody Bible Institute held its annual Pastors&#8217; Conference (this year called re&#124;Focus). Keynote speakers included Alistair Begg, Voddie Bauchman, Michael Easley (former Moody Bible Institute president) and a number of other evangelical pastors and speakers. On Tuesday, during one of the breakout sessions, Peter Spychalla, Director of Prayer Ministries, East White Oak Bible Church in Illinois [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shalem-Trained Contemplative Fil Anderson Member of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse &#8220;Spiritual Care Team&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11677</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fil Anderson is a name Lighthouse Trails has been acquainted with for several years because of his book Running on Empty: Contemplative Spirituality for Overachievers and his involvement with organizations such as Youth Specialties and Young Life (Anderson had been in Young Life leadership for many years and is still involved with the organization). Anderson also speaks with Richard Foster&#8217;s organization, Renovare. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebration of Discipline &#8211; 35 Years of Influence! &#8211; Does Your Pastor Have a Copy?</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=3982</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in 1978, Celebration of Discipline has had a massive influence on today&#8217;s Christianity. Unfortunately, the influence has helped to saturate the church with mystical contemplative prayer and the New Age. Most likely, your pastor has a copy of this book sitting on his library shelves. He may even have it sitting on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harding University &amp; School of Theology &#8211; Another Christian University Added to Contemplative Colleges List</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11567</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CHILDREN AT RISK!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemplative Colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian colleges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a concerned parent contacted us, we researched Harding University in Arkansas and Harding School of Theology in Tennessee (both under the same umbrella) and discovered that Harding needed to be added to our list of Christian schools that are promoting contemplative spirituality. Both the University and the School of Theology have integrated Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Life, Christian Groups Come Forward as Being Unlawfully Targeted By IRS</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11670</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LTRP Note: We are posting this article for informational and research purposes only. It is not intended to be an endorsement  for the organizations mentioned or for the 501 (c) 3 government status (a status Lighthouse Trails chose not to take eleven years ago). This is a follow up to our article last week: &#8220;IRS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote imminent as Boy Scouts considers change to policy banning open homosexuals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press from Fox News With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units. The proposal to be put before the roughly 1,400 voting members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is AOG Superintendent George Wood Responding With Video Regarding Ruth Haley Barton Issue?</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11664</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago, just a little more than a week after Lighthouse Trails posted its first article on April 15th regarding the situation with Assemblies of God inviting contemplative activist Ruth Haley Barton to speak at their 2013 General Council conference, AOG General Superintendent George Wood made a video while in Israel. This video clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvary Chapel Founder Chuck Smith Speaks Against North Coast Calvary Chapel Invitation of Palestinian Activist</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11644</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LTRP Note: Below is a follow-up article to  journalist Jim Fletcher&#8217;s previous article &#8220;Calvary Chapel Breached,&#8221; regarding the situation with North Coast Calvary Chapel&#8217;s recent invitation of a Palestinian activist.  Just prior to the event, Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith made a public statement against the North Coast event. Also read our article, &#8220;Further Implications of Calvary Chapel North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: Christian &amp; Missionary Alliance OK With Ruth Haley Barton and Other Contemplatives</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11640</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Lighthouse Trails: Two and a half years ago the leadership of the Western PA District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance invited Ruth Haley Barton to speak to its pastors and lay delegates at its annual District Conference. I sat in amazement as I watched my fellow pastors nod their heads in affirmation as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Letters to the Editor: Emergent-Leaning Ann Voskamp (One Thousand Gifts) to Speak at NACC (North American Christian Convention) in July</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11638</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[#1: Dear Lighthouse Trails: I graduated from an Independent Christian College over 10 years ago and since that time, I have noticed the Independent Christian denomination is slipping into the Spiritual Formation category at its main Seminaries and at this years NACC they are having Ann Voskamp as a speaker. I am surprised such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COURT RULING TODAY: Court Rules Against German Homeschool Family Seeking Asylum</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11634</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miscellaneous News Source</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Starnes Fox News The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration’s decision to deny asylum to a German homeschooling family. The Romeike family fled their German homeland in 2008 seeking political asylum in the United States – where they hoped to home school their children. Instead, the Obama administration wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Admits to Intentional Targeting of Conservative Groups</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11632</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Heather Clark Christian News Network Washington, D.C. – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has admitted to intentionally targeting conservative groups that included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their tax exempt status applications. Approximately 75 groups were reportedly subjected to strict scrutiny during the 2012 presidential election simply because of certain key words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children and New Age Mindfulness Meditation</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11630</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children and Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHILDREN AT RISK!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Age movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Role of Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Berit Kjos (From Berit&#8217;s new book, How to Protect Your Child From the New Age &#38; Spiritual Deception - May 25, 2013) Unbeknownst to most parents, America’s public schools are teaching their children to use mindfulness meditation (Eastern-style meditation or TM). In a New York Times article titled “In the Classroom, a New Focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPECIAL FOLLOW-UP REPORT: Lighthouse Trails Statement to Assemblies of God Response Regarding Invitation of Ruth Haley Barton</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11607</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 06:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pantheism & panentheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henri Nouwen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ray Yungen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruth haley barton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Special Follow-Up Report by Ray Yungen and the Editors at Lighthouse Trails Before we begin our report addressing the public response issued by the Assemblies of God Superintendent Dr. George O. Wood and Dr. Jodi Detrick, chairperson for the Network for Women in Ministry regarding the invitation of Ruth Haley Barton to the 2013 General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further Implications of Calvary Chapel North Coast Event  &#8211; Lynne Hybels Presence Shows Serious Move Toward Apostasy</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11597</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Global Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concerns for Calvary Chapel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The New Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willow Creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill hybels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we posted an article titled &#8220;Calvary Chapel Breached&#8221; by journalist Jim Fletcher. The article focused on a Calvary Chapel church (North Coast) in California and its invitation of a Palestinian man named Sami Awad. Fletcher&#8217;s article showed the implications of this invitation by Calvary Chapel and how this indicates the further move toward apostasy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvary Chapel Breached</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11592</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Ministry in His Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Global Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Churches in Crisis!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concerns for Calvary Chapel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eschatology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs of the Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willow Creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible prophecy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calvary Chapel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end-times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LTRP Update: After posting this article on Facebook, the question arose as to whether Sami Awad was actually going to be speaking at North Coast Calvary Chapel. To help alleviate any doubts, we are attaching a photo copy of North Coast&#8217;s webpage showing Awad&#8217;s appearance: click here. The event will be taking place on May 10th. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising  PERSECUTION  in the  &#8220;Land of the Free&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11587</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CHILDREN AT RISK!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FREEDOM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persecution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Same-Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World in Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berit Kjos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end-times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kjos ministries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Berit Kjos Kjos Ministries &#8220;&#8230; because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you&#8230;. If they persecuted Me they will persecute you&#8230; for they do not know the One who sent Me.&#8221; John 15:19-21 What goals are driving our government today? What can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHEPHERDS OR WOLVES?</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11590</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Churches in Crisis!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concerns for Calvary Chapel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defending the Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calvary Chapel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end-times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pastors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Oakland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shepherds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual deception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Understand the Times]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Oakland The Bible provides a model for leadership. The model is quite simple. Jesus Christ is the good shepherd. The good shepherd is in charge of the sheep. Christians are sheep who belong to the flock. Unlike what some religious groups teach, the sheep should have personal access to the good shepherd. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Your Child to Become an Atheist? &#8211; Send Him to LeTourneau University in Texas (or Any Other Contemplative/Emergent School For That Matter)</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11583</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CHILDREN AT RISK!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemplative Colleges]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lectio Divina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Deception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemplative prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemplative Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henri Nouwen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interspirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Sweet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That headline may seem a bit overboard or shocking at first glance, but this is what is happening in many of the Christian colleges, seminaries, and universities to kids who start off as Christian and four years later are proclaiming to be now atheist. At Letourneau University, this happened to the son of a  family that Lighthouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of the Times: Raising a Generation of Sociopaths</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11579</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Ministry in His Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Signs of the Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World in Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maria kneas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[riots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria Kneas (author of Strength for Tough Times) Recently, WorldNetDaily had an article about a race riot in Virginia Beach &#8211; wide-spread violence and destruction by black college students who were &#8220;having fun.&#8221; This involved forty thousand college students. That is a huge number of people. It&#8217;s like a full-fledged invasion.[1] Their &#8220;fun&#8221; included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reiki Master Writes to Lighthouse Trails: Says LT Has it All Wrong About Reiki</title>
		<link>http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11573</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 14:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lighthouse Trails Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystical Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Age movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reiki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Role of Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christian reiki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sir, I stumbled across your website at http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/reiki.htm and feel strongly you have not done enough research on the topic to understand what Reiki is or is not.  As a Reiki Master/Teacher, I can understand why you are saying what you are in the video [see video below], but this appears to be on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: Missionary/Pastor Concerned That Christians Think CP Issue Small</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Contemplative Spirituality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Missions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a Christian missionary pastor in  ________, Mexico.  I first would like to thank you for your discernment ministry.  Second, I would like to suggest in your next newsletter you have some sort of survey with statistics of how many US pastors seminaries, as well as worldwide, if you can, are influenced or following  the [...]]]></description>
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