Tag: Dan Kimball

Students Fight for Homosexual Rights on Christian Campuses . . . And Emerging Church Leaders Must Share Blame

LTRP Note: The New York Times article below, stating how more and more students attending Christian colleges are “coming out of the closet” and trying to get their Christian schools to accept and embrace the homosexual lifestyle, has come as no surprise…

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Prayer Stations, Dark Sanctuaries, and Multi-Sensory “Worship”

by  Roger Oakland  Stimulating images that provide spiritual experiences are an essential element of the emerging church. While many are bewildered as to why their churches are darkening their sanctuaries and setting up prayer stations with candles, incense, and icons,…

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LifeWay Stores Drops “Warning” Labels on Emergent Books – Says Not Relevant Anymore

According to a Christianity Today article, LifeWay Christian Stores (resource department for Southern Baptist Convention) has decided to end their “Read with Discernment” labels program that began in 2007.1 Books that LifeWay was carrying at that time by emerging church authors such…

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Contemplative Philip Yancey Keynote Speaker at the 2011 Gay Christian Network Conference

The “Gay Christian Network” will be hosting their annual Mountain Top Experience conference in January 2011. According to their website, contemplative/emerging Christianity Today editor Philip Yancey will be this year’s key note speaker: (click here). Little needs to be said here,…

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Follow Up: Dan Kimball and the Emerging Church

This is a follow up to the recent radio show between VCY America and Lighthouse Trails. If you haven’t already listened to it, you can do so here.  Below we are providing some documentation to support what was said on the…

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Dan Kimball: Modern Day Christianity Needs Combination of Nouwen and Maxwell

In a Christianity Today article titled, “Shape-Shifting Leadership,” featuring Dan Kimball, Mark Driscoll, and Leith Anderson, Kimball states: I’ve read Nouwen’s In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership a dozen times. It convicts me to the core about…

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