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LTRP Note:<\/strong> This weekend we received a letter from a Lighthouse Trails reader who sent us this response he received from Focus on the Family regarding their promotion of contemplative Gary Thomas. Our reader gave us permission to post the letter he received.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dear _____________,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Greetings from Focus on the Family!\u00a0 Thank you for your recent e-mail; it\u2019s a pleasure to get back to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We appreciate the time you took to share an excerpt from a publication by another organization, \u201cexposing\u201d various authors including marriage expert Gary Thomas.\u00a0 By coming to us with your concerns you have expressed a vote of confidence that we do not take lightly.\u00a0 In return, we would mention that we are familiar with the group you\u2019ve quoted; it\u2019s not the first time we\u2019ve heard such allegations, it probably won\u2019t be the last, and we take whatever we hear from that quarter with a healthy dose of salt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Comment:<\/strong> To read some of these “excerpt[s]” that FOF is referring to, please read our article, Serious Concerns for Focus on the Family Marriage Conference. \u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FOF:<\/strong> We would emphasize that featuring someone on our radio broadcast or as an event speaker, or highlighting certain of their books on our online resource center, should not necessarily be construed as a \u201cblanket endorsement\u201d by our ministry of that individual\u2019s entire body of work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Comment:<\/strong> Gary Thomas has not been featured on one<\/em> radio broadcast or one<\/em> event – he is a regularly featured\u00a0author\/speaker at FOF, and his books have been sold there for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FOF<\/strong>: That being said, after careful review our staff has found nothing within the pages of Sacred Marriage <\/em>and Sacred Parenting<\/em> (Mr. Thomas\u2019s best-known works) that contradicts the Christian faith or our ministry\u2019s general approach to marriage and child-rearing issues.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Comment:<\/strong> Focus on the Family has been aware of the concerns that Lighthouse Trails and many other believers have had regarding Gary Thomas’ books, including Sacred Marriage,<\/em> for several years. We received a letter from Tim Masters, in the Office of the Chairman in May of 2006: http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/fofletter06.jpg<\/a>\u00a0after one of our articles. Many of our readers have shared with us letters of similar content they received from FOF.<\/p>\n

In Sacred Marriage<\/em>, Gary Thomas favorably references Mary Ann McPhereson Oliver and her book, Conjugal Spirituality<\/em> several times throughout\u00a0his book.\u00a0Conjugal Spirituality<\/em>is a primer on tantric sex (the union of mystical experiences and sexual activity) and other mystical practices.<\/p>\n

In Sacred Parenting<\/em>, we find more of Gary Thomas’ resonance with\u00a0contemplative\/emerging \u00a0type authors. In this book,\u00a0 he favorably references Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer and her book, Parenting as a Spiritual Journey,<\/em>several times. Rabbi Fuchs-Kreimer is\u00a0 Director of the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She also teaches courses in Muslim-Jewish Dialogue. Fuchs-Kreimer hopes to see more of Islam showing up in America: “To my sensibility, the image of a Muslim community center going up in lower Manhattan is a sign of hope, a very real manifestation of faith in the future of America and of Islam.”\u00a0 Fuchs-Kreimer also promotes the ancient wisdom and emerging\/progressive spirituality\u00a0as you can watch in this video.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

While McPherson Oliver and Fuchs-Kreimer certainly have the freedom to write and believe what they want, their spirituality hardly seems condusive to biblical Christianity that Focus on the Family claims to abide by.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FOF:<\/strong> As a matter of fact, we feel strongly that these books can be of tremendous help to those who choose to take advantage of the messages presented.\u00a0 We are not in a position to address the contents of all<\/em>of Mr. Thomas\u2019s writings, of course \u2013 or those by other authors that may have been mentioned in the \u201cexpos\u00e9\u201d in question \u2013 but this much we can tell you:\u00a0 there is and always has been a strong tradition of practices such as contemplative prayer in the Christian church that has nothing to do with mantras and Eastern meditation.\u00a0 To confuse the two, as some people apparently do, is to jump to an unwarranted conclusion based on a misunderstanding of certain features they appear to share in common.\u00a0 In other words, we would suggest that there is a matter of semantics at play \u2013 one person may claim the phrase \u201ccontemplative prayer\u201d is exclusively associated with Eastern religions, but another may use the term simply to mean a sincere heart attitude and desire to commune with the Lord on a deeply personal and intimate level.\u00a0 We tend to choose the latter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Comment:<\/strong>Ironically, in FOF’s response here, they put mantras on the side of eastern meditation (and rightfully so); BUT Gary Thomas, in his book Sacred Pathways<\/em>(p. 185), tells readers to repeat a word for 20 minutes (that’s a mantra). Focus on the Family also promotes Richard Foster who also promotes the use of a mantra type word or phrase. In fact, repeating a word or phrase is the crucial element of contemplative spirituality (and Hinduism as well). Contemplative pioneers Basil Pennington, Thomas Keating, and Thomas Merton would agree.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FOF:<\/strong> We hope this brief reply is helpful in clarifying our perspective.\u00a0 Thanks again for contacting us, and for your interest in our ministry.\u00a0 If there is some other way on which Focus might be of assistance, please don\u2019t hesitate to let us know.\u00a0 God\u2019s blessings to you!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Craig Johansen\u00a0 Focus on the Family<\/p>\n

Our Comments: <\/strong>The response by FOF Craig Johansen above isn’t the first time he has said these types of things to concerned people. Here is another response he wrote that we found on the Internet. Quite similiar. http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=204957806187712<\/a><\/p>\n

Focus on the Family has admitted that they take Lighthouse Trails with a “dose of salt” \u00a0(i.e., do not take seriously at all). Maybe it’s time they start taking the contemplative issue seriously. Maybe it is time they start listening to the voice of biblical reason rather than the voice of the mystics who ultimately lead down an interspiritual, panentheistic path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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