{"id":757,"date":"2006-11-10T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/11\/readers-on-handling-haggard.html"},"modified":"2006-11-10T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T11:58:00","slug":"readers-on-handling-haggard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/11\/readers-on-handling-haggard.html","title":{"rendered":"Readers on Handling Haggard"},"content":{"rendered":"

My warm thanks go to CM reader Daria for writing this in response to the revelations regarding minister Ted Haggard’s secret life:<\/p>\n

“I read Ted Haggard’s letter to his congregation and was surprised to find him taking responsibility, apologizing, asking for forgiveness, and blaming no one. I thought of how Martha Stewart, Ken Lay, and Mel Gibson all failed at this. So while I may deplore Haggard’s actions, I don’t condemn the man. (If anything, I empathize with his brokenness.) <\/p>\n

I’d encourage anyone who is quick to judge (or condemn) to read this letter<\/a> as well as the one written by Gayle, his wife…What happens next in the Haggard’s lives may be the purest example of how they live their faith. Isn’t our response also a demonstration of our own?”<\/p>\n

And gracious thanks to CM regular Myrna Weinreich<\/a> for posted this on the same subject: “Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness!! Or is it compassion as well? Let’s start trees of forgiveness and plant them all over the universe!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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