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Lighthouse Trails 2020 Year-in-Review – Final Part – Top 10 In-House Articles

See Part 1 of Year in Review: Top 10 Letters to the Editor. See Part 2 of Year in Review: Top 10 Out-of-House News Stories.See Part 3 of Year in Review: Top 10 Articles by LT AuthorsSee Part 4:  Top 5 Guest Writer Articles In this last…

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Lilly Endowment’s Contemplative-Focused Clergy Renewal Program Updated Lists

In 2013, we posted an article titled “What’s Up with Lilly Endowment – Funding Pastoral Sabbaticals with a Contemplative Agenda.” Below is a copy of that article (with excerpts from a related 2007 article). In it, it provides a link…

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Question to the Editor: What’s Up with Lilly Endowment – Funding Pastoral Sabbaticals with a Contemplative Agenda

To Lighthouse Trails: Eli Lilly, a major pharmaceutical company, in conjunction with Christian Theological Seminary (a liberal seminary in Indianapolis, IN) is funding pastoral sabbaticals.  It appears it is just a part of a national program. Seems highly suspect to…

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Ancient Practices for Youth Will Help Unite World Religions

By Ray Yungen The cover of the July/August 1999 issue of Group Magazine, a leading resource magazine for Christian youth leaders, featured a teenage girl, eyes shut, doing contemplative prayer. The article, “Ancient-Future Youth Ministry” begins by declaring: It’s Sunday…

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Contemplative Emphasis Continues at Willow Creek … Stronger Than Ever

by Mike Stanwood Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know…

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Christian Leaders Giving Mysticism to Our Youth

by Ray Yungen  The cover of the July/August 1999 issue of Group Magazine, a leading resource magazine for Christian youth leaders, featured a teenage girl, eyes shut, doing contemplative prayer. The article, “Ancient-Future Youth Ministry” begins by declaring: It’s Sunday…

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