{"id":290,"date":"2010-06-03T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/06\/ted-haggard-starts-new-church.html"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:16:49","slug":"ted-haggard-starts-new-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/06\/ted-haggard-starts-new-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Ted Haggard Starts New Church&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I ever saw Ted Haggard was in a documentary. He was joking with a few evangelical boys about how great sex in the Christian marriage bed can be. Martin and I looked at each other, made a few admittedly snarky comments ala, &#8220;thou doth protest too much&#8221; and thought little of it. A few weeks later it hit the news that Haggard had been caught in a pretty salacious sex scandal. As we watched the news report we recalled the earlier conversation. Now, a few years later, Haggard is starting a new church, St. James. He describes it in this video as a church by broken people for broken people. 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