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Lighthouse Trails 2022 Year in Review – Part 2 – Top 10 Letters and Comments From Readers

(See Year in Review 2022, Part 1, The Chosen) While we receive numerous letters, comments, calls, and e-mails throughout the year, and consider them all important and of value, we believe the 10 letters and comments below illustrate very well what…

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Letter to the Editor Reveals Salvation Army Pushing Yoga, Meditation, and Mystic Henri Nouwen

Dear Lighthouse Trails: I am enclosing some magazine articles put out by the Salvation Army during the summer of 2022. One of them is from Peer magazine that is for teenagers and college-age kids. The article from that magazine is…

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New Booklet by Harry Ironside: My Conversion and My Journey Out of “the Holiness Movement”

My Conversion and My Journey Out of “the Holiness Movement” by Harry Ironside is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our booklets are designed…

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Letter to the Editor: The Salvation Army Continues on the Ecumenical Road

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails first wrote about the Salvation Army’s move into the contemplative/emerging camp in July of 2006 in an article titled, “Salvation Army Joins the Contemplative/Emerging Ranks.” Later that year, we reported on Salvation Army’s partnering with Pete…

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Letter to the Editor: “Banned From Church Services in New Zealand Because We’re Not Vaccinated”

Hi Lighthouse Trails: Here in New Zealand, we are opening up after Auckland, our largest city, has been in lockdown for quite a while. We have been going to the Salvation Army in _____________. They have now decided that because…

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Letter to the Editor: Concerns About the Lectio 365 App (aka: Pete Greig and Lectio Divina)

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Are you familiar with the Lectio 365 app? It is being promoted at my church and the small amount of research I’ve done has me concerned. Thank you so much for your boldness in standing up for God’s…

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Christian Leaders—A New Openness . . . to the Catholic Church

LTRP Note: The information in this article was written a few years ago, but it remains as relevant today as it did back then—in fact, more so as you can see from the articles we link to at the bottom…

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Lighthouse Trails 2019 Year-in-Review – Final Part – Top 10 In-House Articles by LT Editors

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 Authors. The final…

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World Leader of Salvation Army Meets With Pope Francis/Vatican to Discuss Ecumenical Plans

According to a November 2019 posting on the Salvation Army website titled, “World Leader of The Salvation Army General Brian Peddle meets His Holiness Pope Francis,” it appears that the Salvation Army is part of the growing ranks of evangelical…

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Letter to the Editor: Freedom of Religion Being Seriously Challenged in Canada

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Freedom of religion is being seriously challenged in Canada. Freedom of speech will be next! Christian organizations (perhaps including the Salvation Army, because who knows whether they will sign) which offer charitable programs (after school activity etc.)…

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Uniting Religions for World Change: The G8 World Religions Summit

by Carl Teichrib Forcing Change (courtesy Kjos Ministries) Points to Ponder About Christian Interfaith Involvement: 1) The interfaith approach is rationally directionless. If all religions are equally valid or hold some common level of spiritual authenticity, as the interfaith movement…

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G12 Master Plan Could Expose Thousands of Nazarenes to Contemplative/Emerging Spirituality

by Philip Gray Free-Lance Writer “Training Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Churches” is the motto for New Church Specialties, a Christian consulting organization that largely reaches Nazarenes. But New Church Specialties and the affiliated New Church University (where pastors and leaders…

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