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Lighthouse Trails 2024 YEAR-IN-REVIEW – Top 10 Articles

See Part 1 of Year-in-Review: Top 5 Letters to the Editor.  1.From a Former Nazarene to the Church of the Nazarene: Why Now Do You Practice These Things? (Manny Silva): There are some Christians in the Concerned Nazarenes group who sincerely have asked…

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Letter to the Editor: To All Parents of Students Considering Attending Gordon College

LTRP Note: Since the inception of Lighthouse Trails in 2002, we have been researching and warning about what is happening in today’s Christian colleges, seminaries, and universities. The letter below from Manny Silva (co-founder of Concerned Nazarenes) (posted with his…

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Update on Colorado Christian University – “Is it still a Contemplative School?”

July 2013 Update on Colorado Christian University: On July 10th, our office received a call from a concerned parent whose child attends Colorado Christian University. She saw that most of the links on our 2009 Letter to the Editor (see…

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Olivet Nazarene University 105th School Added to Lighthouse Trails Contemplative School List

On Saturday morning, Lighthouse Trails received an e-mail from a concerned parent whose child is attending Olivet Nazarene University. The parent told us that Richard Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline is part of a required Freshman course. We have also…

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Nazarene Pastor Fired For Fighting Emergent Ideology

by Manny Silva Concerned Nazarenes Disturbing trends continue to develop in our denomination.  Recently, I sent out a prayer request for a pastor and his church that decided to leave the Nazarene denomination, rather than stay and bow to emergent…

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WHERE WILL YOU SEND YOUR CHILD TO COLLEGE THIS FALL? BETTER THINK TWICE

In November 2004, Lighthouse Trails issued its first alert to readers on Christian colleges that are promoting contemplative spirituality. The four colleges listed in that alert were San Fransisco Theological Seminary, Biola University, Bethel University, and Lincoln Christian College and…

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