Tag: child sexual abuse

What Led Up to Philip Zodhiates’ 3-Year Imprisonment in a U.S. Federal Prison . . . And Why This Isn’t Over Yet

LTRP Note: One of the highlights of 2024 for Lighthouse Trails editors was our chance to help Philip Zodhiates get his biographical prison book, Innocent: The Price One Man Paid for Doing What Is Right, into print. While we were…

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Lighthouse Trails 2023 Year in Review—Final Part—Top 10 In-House Articles

See Part 1 of our 2023 Year in Review. See Part 2 of our 2023 Year in Review. Top 5 2023 Articles by Lighthouse Trails Editors 1) Hard Lessons in Discernment: People often wonder, whether they verbalize it or not,…

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Philip Zodhiates Powerful Interview With “Stand Up for the Truth” Podcast

Mary Danielsen, the host for the Stand Up for the Truth podcast and radio program, interviewed former political prisoner, Philip Zodhiates, who spent two and a half years in a U.S. prison. We hope you will listen to this 55-minute…

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Evangelical Pastor, John Ortberg, Resigns for Allowing Son Attracted to Minors to Work With Kids

LTRJ Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes and is a follow up of an article we posted on July 7th. Lighthouse Trails has been concerned about John Ortberg’s contemplative/emergent propensities for many years. In this case,…

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“Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Facing Sexual Abuse Reports, Resigns From the College of Cardinals”

LTRP Note: For nearly sixteen years, Lighthouse Trails has been publishing resources related to child sexual abuse. Some may ask, how is that related to the Gospel? We believe pedophilia is part of what we call the death religion (really…

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Saddleback Church Youth Worker Arrested for Molesting 14-Year-Boys Brings Issue to Surface

A Lighthouse Trails reader has alerted us to a news story in the Los Angeles Times  (see below) about the arrest of a 32-year-old Saddleback Church male youth worker who has been accused of molesting two 14-year-old boys at Saddleback….

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Remembering the Children: 46 Claims Filed in 2 months to Catholic Priest Abuse Victims Program

LTRP Note: This news story is another reminder that untold numbers of children have been and continue to be sexually abused (and not just in the Catholic Church) around the world. It’s an epidemic that still remains hushed in many…

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WorldNetDaily: “Obama Administration Enables ‘Boy Play'” – Child Molestation Overlooked by U.S. Government

By Matt Barber WorldNetDaily God help us. Here’s what America’s newly homosexualized, “values neutral” military looks like. Last week, in a strange fit of actual news reporting, the New York Times published an exposé revealing that, under this Obama administration,…

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Results of Bill Gothard Harassment Investigation Released – “No Criminal Activity Has Been Discovered”

LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational purposes and as a follow up to a previous article we posted and is not meant as an endorsement for the source, Christianity Today. The article we previously posted is “Bill Gothard…

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Bill Gothard Responds to Allegations

LTRP Note: This is a follow up to our earlier posting, “Bill Gothard Resigns from Institute in Basic Life Principles Under Allegations of Sexual Abuse (And How to Spot the Signs of a Sexual Predator) .” By Warren Cole Smith…

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Richard Wurmbrand’s Son, Michael Wurmbrand, Comes Forth – Asks VOM to Allow Independent Investigation

On March 14th, Lighthouse Trails received an e-mail from Michael Wurmbrand, the son of the late Richard Wurmbrand, founder of Voice of the Martyrs. In order to verify the authenticity of the letter we received, we contacted VOM first. A…

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Lighthouse Trails 2013 Year in Review—PART 6 – Top 10 Articles in 2013 By Lighthouse Trails Authors

1) Can Christians Be Spiritually Deceived, and How Can They Avoid it? By Roger Oakland 2) Rising PERSECUTION in the “Land of the Free”?  By Berit Kjos 3) How to Protect Your Child From Sexual Predators – With Prayer & the…

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