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New Life Church, in Colorado Springs, is the mega-church founded by now-disgraced pastor Ted Haggard. It was the collateral damage of last fall’s revelation of Pastor Haggard’s relationship with a gay prostitute. Membership fell by more than 30%. Those remaining had to deal with both the shame of what their pastor had done and the…

Is the complete mess of the Republican party any clearer than with the fact that all of these men who are trying to compete for votes and attention – and are really trying to mobilize the completely disinterested conservative Christian movement – did so on a Sunday morning when, oh, Christians spend their time at…

From Doug about my post on the idiocy of the Hucka-back controversy: I don’t think this reflects Christians, Christianity or Christ. It reflects what happens when the Church becomes a tribe with political aspirations. But I agree with this: political Christianity is abominable evangelism. Jesus’ followers were doubters, traitors, egoists and fishy. We still are,…

Thanks to Jillian for the link to this article about 50% of Americans thinking we found WMDs in Iraq. The article is a year old but is still a jaw-dropper – a much more powerful example of how little we Americans tend to know about little things like…war. Do you believe in Iraqi “WMD”? Did…
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