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Walk to Emmaus is a Walk to Contemplative

The Walk to Emmaus, an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Cursillo Movement, which originated in Spain in 1949, is a program put on by Upper Room Ministries (an organization that promotes Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative spirituality)). If you want to…

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Back to School

Are Christian High Schools Promoting Contemplative Spirituality?  In a few weeks, high schoolers will be returning to school, and many of them will be going to Christian high schools. Are Christian schools falling into the snare of contemplative/emerging spirituality as…

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Willow Creek Leadership Summit Starts Today – Speaker Promotes New Age

“I attended a meditation-intensive day at an ashram [Hindu spiritual center]to support a friend. As I sat in meditation in what was for me an unfamiliar environment, I suddenly felt and saw a bolt of lightning shoot up from the…

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Willow Creek Leadership Summit Starts Today – Speaker Promotes New Age

  “I attended a meditation-intensive day at an ashram [Hindu spiritual center]to support a friend. As I sat in meditation in what was for me an unfamiliar environment, I suddenly felt and saw a bolt of lightning shoot up from…

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Leadership Summit 2006 Speaker Promotes Eastern/New Age Meditation

This year’s Leadership Summit, hosted by Willow Creek, will be attended by more than 70,000 men and women, in over 130 locations. One of the featured speakers this year is Jim Collins. In 1982, Collins took Michael Ray’s course, Creativity…

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Christian Leaders – Quoting Contemplatives and Saying It Is OK

If you are someone who, on a regular basis, reads books written by Christian leaders, then you are probably well aware that many of those leaders quote contemplative authors. And many of those leaders defend their quoting of contemplatives, insisting…

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Awana Club Now Featuring Book by Youth Specialties Speaker

In February, we contacted Awana Club with concerns about their affiliation with and promotion of contemplative organizations such as Willow Creek, Youth Specialties, and Group Publishing. We later learned that there would be no changes made by Awana regarding these…

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MOVIE ALERT: Conversations With God

In the last couple years there has been an unusually high number of movies that have an obvious and clear New Age message. Indigo Children and Bee Season are two of those along with more recent releases such as The…

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CAUTION: 2006 National Youth Workers Convention

This year’s Youth Specialties-hosted National Youth Workers Convention will include a labyrinth(Meditative words and music guide you on a one-hour reflective journey), and a huge speakers list that includes several contemplative/emerging promoting authors including Dan Kimball (The Emerging Church), Fil…

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Contemplative Terms, and What They Mean

Ancient Wisdom The supposed laws of the Universe that, when mastered, enable one to see one’s own divinity-another word for metaphysics or occultism. A Thin Place Where the space or distance (spiritually speaking) between heaven and earth, God and man…

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Rick Warren Launches P.E.A.C.E. Plans around the World

News Story from Christian Post: “Last summer, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren he fell in love with Rwanda – one of the top countries at the highest risk – as he was testing his P.E.A.C.E. Plan model. This summer, Warren…

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Lighthouse Trails Publishing Prints 1st Catalog

In March of 2002, Lighthouse Trails Publishing began. Our first book was A Time of Departing by Ray Yungen. After that we published Laughter Calls Me and then Tapestry: The Journey of Laurel Lee. In 2005, we released Running Against…

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