LTRP Note: Richard and Linda Nathan have been an integral part of the Lighthouse Trails ministry for many years. Their booklets dealing with marijuana, psychedelic drugs, the New Age, and martial arts have helped many people; and their novels, based on their own experience in the New Age, are captivating and very relevant for today’s church. Richard will be missed by so many.
From Richard’s obituary:
Richard Nathan, a Lighthouse Trails Publishing author, went to be with His Lord on November 10, 2025, after a long illness under Hospice care.
Richard was born on June 25, 1943, in San Francisco, California, into a family of Marxist atheists. In 1962, he met his future wife, Linda, in an anarchist commune. They married in 1963 while attending UC-Berkeley, visited Europe on an old freighter, and upon their return, plunged into the exploding ‘60s counterculture in the Bay Area where they spent 14 years deeply involved in psychedelics and New Age mysticism.
In 1976, Linda, who’d been unable to have children, got cervical cancer and was scheduled for a hysterectomy. Shortly before the operation, Jesus Christ exploded into their lives, healing Linda, and giving her a baby instead. At the time, Richard, who by then had a Biology degree, was planning on entering medical school. Instead, Christ Jesus saved him and sent him to seminary instead where he earned a Master of Religion Degree in Christian History. Richard loved God’s Word and taught it faithfully whenever he had the chance.
Richard and Linda then spent the next nearly 40 years in a joint apologetics and evangelistic ministry speaking and teaching at conferences, seminars, and churches exposing New Age thinking and its incursions into our society. Together they wrote three futuristic Christian novels with a study guide called The Omega Point Series and four apologetics booklets. Their works are available on Lighthouse Trails Publishing’s website.
Besides his teaching ministry, Richard worked full-time for 30 years as a psychiatric assistant in locked psychiatric wards at PeaceHealth in Bellingham and at Compass Health in Sedro-Woolley, WA.
Richard and Linda were married 62 years and have three beloved grandchildren.
Linda is currently working on her memoirs, as well as the final novel in the Omega Point Series, which she hopes will be out in 2026.
For more information, visit their website at www.richardandlindanathan.com.
Well done Good and Faithful servants..