First woman elected to lead the Protestant Church in Germany
Young Germany RSS feed (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
For the first time in history, the most important ministry in the Protestant Church in Germany...
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Germantown mural a result of common effort to honor uncommon spirituality
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
A large mural depicting doves, trees, a lotus flower and the phrase "Service Faith Justice" in six languages was unveiled yesterday at the Neighborhood Interfaith Movement's headquarters in Germantown, where residents gathered before the neighborhood's first piece of art invoking multiple congregations.
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Report Says Young Evangelicals Calling Rick Warren/Bono Role Models
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
LTRP Note: The following out-of-house article is posted here, not as an endorsement of what is being said, but rather to illustrate that today's young Christians are largely being influenced by those outside the scope of biblical Christianity and are being pulled into the "new spirituality" via Rick Warren and ...
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Warren B. Smith/Ray Yungen Conferences/Books Exposing New Spirituality in Church
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
SPECIAL NOTE: Learn more about the new spirituality coming in to the church through various avenues by reading A "Wonderful" Deception, A Time of Departing, and Faith Undone. (Click here for more information on this "New Spirituality Trio,", exposing the truth in courage and strength.) On Saturday, October 10, 2009, ...
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'Six Words on the Digital Life' by DustyArtaud
SMITH Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Synchronous virtuality is my new spirituality.
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G12 Master Plan Could Expose Thousands of Nazarenes to Contemplative/Emerging Spirituality
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
"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 are mentored and trained) are a conduit for the new spirituality, and their G12 Master's ...
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Meditation and Contemplative Prayer: Test the Spirits
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Not long after our conversion, my wife and I sat down one day and talked about the ultimate spiritual deception described in the Bible--the great "falling away" of the church and the coming of Antichrist. We agreed that for someone like Antichrist to be credible in the world, he would ...
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Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity
Religion Dispatches (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
The idea of transgender Christianity shocks people on both sides of the divide: conservative religious reject any kind of gender variance and the LGBT community can be suspicious of organized religion. In all of this, trans-Christians are forging a new spirituality.
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The War on Drugs is a War on Consciousness
The Truth Will Set You Free (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
By Carol Moore I believe that a prime motivation of those waging the current "war on drugs" is to discredit and destroy any "counterculture" before it becomes the dominant culture. Religious fundamentalists have not forgotten the religious upheavals of the 1960s when millions of young people, often after using marijuana and other psychedelics, reading Timothy Leary or Alan Watts,...
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Paganism and Witchcraft in Youth Culture
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
By Crusade, from TFP Mrs. Linda Harvey is the founder of Mission: America, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help in dealing with cultural issues such as feminism, homosexuality, education and New Age influences. She is the author of Not My Child—Contemporary Paganism and New Spirituality and her articles have appeared in USA Today and [...]
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FOX NEWS: Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Fox News A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties. Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act ...
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Announcement from Slice of Laodicea
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
From Ingrid Schlueter Slice of Laodicea Blog For several years, Slice of Laodicea has existed to inform and educate Christians about trends and news in contemporary evangelicalism and religion in general. As of tonight, the news and commentary will now be located at the Crosstalk Blog under the Religion category. There, you ...
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Lutherans (ELCA) adopt more open view on homosexuality
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination have moved toward a more welcoming view of homosexuality. Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, meeting in Minneapolis, approved a "social statement on human sexuality" that acknowledges differing views on homosexuality. It says the ELCA is strong enough ...
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2009 National Worship Conference Brings Contemplatives, Laurie, and Sweet Together
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The 2009 National Worship Leader Conference took place on July 20-23 in Leawood, Kansas and brought together a convergence of contemplative/emerging speakers. Some will probably wonder though why popular trusted figures like Calvary Chapel's Greg Laurie, 70s Jesus movement singer Evie, and Love Song lead singer, Chuck Girard, were ...
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Fractals, Chaos Theory, Quantum Spirituality, and The Shack
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
LTRP Note: The following is the third installment (see: part one, part two) that we are posting of Warren Smith's new book, A "Wonderful" Deception. We hope you have find the chance to read all three chapters that we have made available. They are very important in helping to explain ...