Tag: The Emerging Church
For over seven years now, Lighthouse Trails has followed Moody Bible Institute’s continued promotion of contemplative spirituality. Although the organization has denied that they are promoting contemplative, the evidence has consistently existed. Those who have a good understanding of contemplative spirituality are…
Dear Lighthouse Trails, I left my church of 43 years, because they were promoting books like Ruth Haley Barton’s “Solitude and Silence”; they had built a Labyrinth next to the Memorial garden where my parents ashes lay and were performing…
LTRP Note: Texas Wesleyan University is connected to the United Methodist Church. This would be considered a mainline denomination (e.g, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian). These have traditionally pioneered the way in accepting heretical beliefs and practices into the church. Contemplative spirituality has,…
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…
By Nanci Des Gerlaise (Canadian Cree author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Native Americans developed the concept of the medicine wheel to illustrate their belief that life is a circle—from birth to death to…
Not only are there political quests being achieved through the indoctrination of these young people, but these young followers are becoming convinced that a socialistic religion-killing society is the only solution for man. Jeff Bethke, the 24-year-old man who did the anti-religion YouTube video in 2012,…