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Remember the Alamo--- Tony Alamo
Date: 11/21/2009
The story of Tony Alamo is bound, someday, to be made into a movie. It's so bizarre, so improbable, so full of incident and crime and sin that it makes some soap operas look clean! The horrifyingly saddest part of this story is that Alamo was viewed and viewed himself as a conservative Christian minister. In the eyes of the world, it gives all such persons a bad name ...
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As Haggard Returns, Questions Linger
Date: 11/19/2009
(RNS) After disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard decided to start holding prayer meetings at his Colorado home, advisers and observers, perhaps not surprisingly, reacted with disappointment. But the fact that he's chosen to host the meetings within a few miles of the Colorado Springs megachurch that dismissed him three years ago -- because of a sex and drug scandal involving a male escort -- ...
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Haggard Calls New Prayer Meeting His "Resurrection"
Date: 11/13/2009
(RNS) Former evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who left the ministry after being caught in a sex and drug scandal, said Thursday (Nov. 12) that the start of a prayer meeting in his Colorado home is a sign of his "resurrection" but not necessarily of a new church. "For the people who come tonight, that means they believe in the resurrection in me," Haggard told reporters before the start of the meet ...
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Ted Haggard's Fall: Gayle's Story
Date: 08/19/2009
The downfall of Ted Haggard has featured sex, drugs, public humiliation and betrayal --but in spiritual terms, this is all just rubbernecking. The story that redeems this scandal is, How did Gayle Haggard, wife of the fallen megachurch minister, manage her feelings and resolve to stay with Ted? How did she forgive? The good news is we're about to find out. Gayle will publish her side of the ...
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Mark Sanford v. Elliot Spitzer- the Hypocrisy (and faith) Factor
Date: 06/26/2009
Alec Baldwin wants me to move on and not pay attention to the Mark Sanford fandango. I basically agree. But over the last couple of days I have been wondering why the Mark Sanford affair rankles me more than, say, the Elliot Spitzer affair. And it is, of course, because of Sanford's hypocracy. Mark Sanford has made a career of moralizing against other people .&n ...
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Ted Haggard and Wife to Appear on 'Divorce Court'
Date: 03/20/2009
As the death of his career continues, Ted Haggard just keeps moving toward the light--the television light. Since he admitted to homosexual acts and stepped down as pastor of a Colorado megachurch and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard has appeared in a HBO documentary and with his wife Gayle on "Oprah." According to The Huffington Post , The Haggards are in Los ...
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St. Gayle Haggard
Date: 01/30/2009
Last night, I watched the HBO documentary, The Trials of Ted Haggard , and then caught the second half of Ted and Gayle Haggard's appearance on Larry King Live. I went in quite skeptically. I know a couple persons who knew/know Ted, and they describe him as something of a meglomaniac. No surprise, Alexandra Pelosi paints Ted as a sympathetic figure. In fact, using footage fro ...
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Ted Haggard: Neither Gay nor Straight
Date: 01/31/2009
Is Ted Haggard gay or straight? Neither. Few of us are. Most of us, instead, are on a spectrum between the two, as Becky knight explains . Money Quote: What was missing from the conversation was the awareness that sexual orientation exists on a spectrum. Between the polarizing categories of "gay" and "straight," there is a diversity of experiences and orientations. Intu ...
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