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Date: 09/22/2011
So who will Ted Haggard swap his wife, Gayle, for? Gary Busey’s wife. Or his girlfriend. Or somebody female who hangs around him. Yep. According to the LA Times… Gary Busey and Ted Haggard swap wives … That’s not a joke or a punchline. It will actually happen on the new reality series “Celebrity Wife Swap,” [...] WHAT: ‘Celebrity Wife Swap’ to featu ...
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Date: 09/23/2011
I was driving in my car yesterday when someone on the radio started talking about Ted Haggard and his wife, Gayle, appearing on ABC’s Celebrity Wife Swap this Fall. The host was making terrible jokes about Haggard and talked about how fitting it was that the filming of the show would begin at the GLBT Pride Center in Colorado Springs. Celebrity Wife Swap is a spin off the reality TV show ...
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Date: 09/23/2011
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report aren't resting on their Emmy laurels -- they each had entertaining faith-related bits this week, particularly on the end of " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's United Nations edition. (Unfortunately, Comedy Central videos tend to play automatically on this blog, so I'm not going to upload them directly.) For a sound-off Fun Fri ...
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Date: 09/23/2011
[caption id="attachment_7592" align="alignleft" width="315" caption="Gary Busey"] [/caption] "An appearance on ABC’s 'Celebrity Wife Swap' show is not the traditional way to restore the image of a troubled evangelical pastor," notes Joshua Little in the Washington Post 's "On Faith" section: But, scandalized former mega-church pastor Ted Haggard has confirmed that he will be swapping partner ...
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Date: 06/21/2011
By G. JEFFREY MacDONALD c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) When GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty goes to church, he knows he'll hear a 27-minute sermon -- never longer, never shorter. But whether he'll hear a biblical endorsement of the Republican platform is far less certain. Pawlenty gets his spiritual guidance from Leith Anderson, senior pastor at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, M ...
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Date: 05/25/2011
A ccording to scripture, upon returning to heaven after his death and resurrection, Jesus sat down in a chair next to God. I imagine them sitting like this often, watching the events on Planet Earth and making commentary. My guess would be that, after lengthy dialogues regarding natural disasters, poverty, disease, and whether or not to keep Bono on retainer, God and Jesus might discuss mo ...
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Date: 04/19/2011
On this, the anniversary of the Columbine high school shootings, I'm giving space to a book excerpt from Brady Boyd , a pastor in Colorado who has seen his own share of violent tragedy. In December 2007, a gunman opened fire at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, killing two people and wounding several others. In his new book Fear No Evil: A Test of Faith, a Courageous Church, and an Unfailing ...
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Date: 01/31/2011
The recent headlines out of Africa have a lot -- if not everything -- to do with religion, with ripple effects being felt around the world. Here are some links about the brutal murder of gay activist David Kato, an Anglican from Uganda who couldn't even be buried in peace: Is murdered gay activist David Kato the Gabrielle Giffords of Uganda? (Politics Daily) Scuffles at funeral of Ugan ...
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