Tag: Rob Bell

Lighthouse Trails 2013 Year in Review—PART 1 – Top 7 Book and Film Reviews in 2013

At the end of every year, Lighthouse Trails presents its YEAR IN REVIEW. Over the next few days, we will post a number of different categories with our top stories from each category. Our first category this year is our “Top 7 Book…

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Brian McLaren’s Mystery Project Out of the Bag – CANA Initiative – A Gathering of Emergents

Recently, a reader brought to our attention a new development within the emerging church – the Cana Initiative, a think tank comprised of “faith-engaged organizations, individuals, institutions and networks.” On the Cana Initiative website, it states: The CANA Initiative seeks to create…

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Letter to the Editor: The Affects of “Spiritual Formation” in a Christian Church

To Lighthouse Trails: My hope is that this might benefit someone, if not in the writing of it, but in the responses it might receive. Telling myself always in all that I do, I try to do for the Glory…

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News in Review with Understand the Times

The latest news briefs from Understand the Times: September 17 – Will Israel be the World’s First ‘No Cash’ Society? September 20 – Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game September 23 – Pope expresses good…

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BOOK REVIEW: Putting Away Childish Things, a Tale of Modern Faith by Marcus J. Borg

LTRP Note: While reading this book review on Marcus Borg’s new book, please bear in mind two things: one, that Borg rejects essential tenets of the biblical Christian faith (such as that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he was…

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Bell Calls Homosexual ‘Marriage’ a Move of God for ‘Greater Affirmation of Gay Brothers, Sisters’

By Heather Clark Christian News Network Just days after word broke that Rob Bell, author of the best-selling and controversial book Love Wins, which challenges the Christian teaching of Hell, came out in support of the homosexual lifestyle, Bell has…

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