Category: *NATIVE SPIRITUALITY

MASK-E-PE-TOON: A STORY OF FORGIVENESS

A true story taken from Northern Campfires and Indian Wigwams (LT edition) By Egerton Ryerson YoungMissionary to the Cree people in Northern Manitoba in the late 1800s The following incident occurred years ago on the great plains of the Canadian…

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The Story of Mask-e-pe-toon – A Powerful Cree Chief Who Found the Truth Through Forgiveness

By Egerton Ryerson Young(Missionary to the Cree people in Manitoba in the late 1800s) The following incident occurred years ago on the great plains of the Canadian Northwest, long before the waves of Anglo-Saxon civilization began to surge over those…

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NEW BOOKLET: Psychedelic Seduction: Drugging the World and the Church

Psychedelic Seduction: Drugging the World and the Church by Richard and Linda Nathan is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed…

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“Canadian Churches on First Nations Land Are Burning” [Backlash From Recent Discovery of Children’s Graves]

LTRJ Note: Lighthouse Trails author and Canadian Cree Nanci Des Gerlaise writes about the Canadian “residential schools” (whose mother grew up in one) in her apologetics biography, Muddy Waters: An Insider’s View of North American Native Spirituality. (See photo credits…

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NEW BOOKLET: Drugs, Meditation, & “A Fully Developed Spirituality”

NEW BOOKLET: Drugs, Meditation, & “A Fully Developed Spirituality” by David Dombrowski is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed to…

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Booklet Highlight: Forgiving—A Story of Forgiveness and How and Why We Should Forgive

LTRP Note: The following is a Lighthouse Trails topical booklet. Lighthouse Trails now publishes 145 booklets, written by over 30 authors. These inexpensive ($1.95 each) booklets are designed to give away, and based on comments and feedback from our readers,…

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Can Cultures Be Redeemed?—Understanding a View That Demeans the Gospel

By Nanci Des GerlaiseNanci is the daughter and granddaughter of Canadian Cree medicine men. [Indigenous People’s Movement] leaders teach that God has been redeeming cultures and that He placed in all cultures a way for men to have a relationship with…

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Letter to the Editor: Native Shaman Rituals Being Used in Mission in Canada

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Thanks so much for your ministry; your newsletters have been very informative and a blessing to read. For the past three years, we have been involved in a church ministry in __________, Canada which includes outreach to…

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Circle Making and “Prayer Circles” Versus the Straight Line of Truth

LTRP Note: In 2017, Lighthouse Trails released a booklet titled Circle Making and “Prayer Circles” Versus the Straight Line of Truth because many Christian leaders have been promoting and endorsing a book (and its practice) called The Circle Maker by…

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Two Sources of Power But Only One Source of Truth

Nanci Des Gerlaise is a First Nations Canadian Cree woman who is the daughter and granddaughter of medicine men. Growing up, her life was filled with the practices and mystical experiences brought on from Native Spirituality. Today, as a born-again…

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Dream Catchers—Those Popular Spidery “Sacred Hoops”

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Dream catchers—those spidery “sacred hoops” with feathers. They originated with the Ojibwa tribe during the ’60s and ’70s, supposedly to protect a sleeper by…

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