Author: Lighthouse Trails Editors
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…
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…