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Ex-pastor Ted Haggard holds home prayer meeting

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn't the start of a new church, but a sign of his resurrection three years after he was forced to resign amid a sex scandal.

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Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said he will continue to hold weekly prayer meetings at his home, three years after he was ousted from the church he founded amid a scandal involving a male prostitute and drug use.

Haggard surprised by attention on prayer meetings

Former pastor Ted Haggard says his decision to hold prayer meetings in his Colorado Springs living room has attracted great interest from the media.

Haggard says he suggested divorce after scandal

Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard says he wanted his wife to divorce him after a sex scandal involving another man, but she refused.

Wife says Haggard told her of struggles years ago

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard's wife says she knew about his struggles with same-sex attraction for years and felt he was "winning the battle" before a scandal involving a male prostitute triggered his downfall in late 2006.

Former church member: Haggard performed sex act

A young man who formerly attended New Life Church says that then-pastor Ted Haggard performed a sex act in front of him in a hotel room in 2006 and sent him explicit text messages.

Disgraced pastor faces more gay sex accusations

Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard — a revelation that comes as Haggard tries to repair his public image.

Pastor in gay scandal: I'm back from 'wilderness'

Speaking out two years after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal, former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard said Friday his sexual identity is complex and can't be put into "stereotypical boxes," but that his relationship with his wife is stronger than ever.

Haggard says he still struggles with sexuality

Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard says in a new documentary that he still struggles with his sexuality yet is committed to his marriage for the sake of his children.

Disgraced pastor returns, as Christian businessman

Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.

Disgraced pastor Haggard: I was abused as child

Disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says he was sexually abused as a child and that the experience "started to rage in my mind and in my heart" when he was caught up in a sex scandal involving a male prostitute. Haggard made the remarks in two recent sermons in Morrison, Ill., ABC's "Good Morning America" reported Wednesday.

AP NewsBreak: Haggard Leaves Colorado

The Rev. Ted Haggard moved Wednesday from his longtime home in Colorado Springs to Phoenix, where the disgraced minister will join the same church that helped fallen televangelist Jim Bakker.

Haggard Now "Completely Heterosexual"

One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual."

Another Pastor Out at New Life Church

A pastor who worked with young adults at New Life Church has admitted sexual misconduct and resigned just weeks after former church leader Ted Haggard stepped down over sexual immorality.

Haggard Begins Spiritual 'Restoration'

There will be prayer, and perhaps the laying on of hands. There will be counseling and a confession. And there will be advice, confrontation and rebuke from "godly men" appointed to oversee the spiritual "restoration" of the Rev. Ted Haggard.

Fired Evangelist Slams Gays in New Movie

The Rev. Ted Haggard has been fired amid allegations of gay sex and drug use, but the evangelical leader can still be seen at the height of his powers — preaching to thousands and condemning homosexuality — in the documentary "Jesus Camp."

Fired Evangelist Asks for Forgiveness

Members of the New Life Church were stunned and brought to tears by the Rev. Ted Haggard's confessions of "sexual immorality," then accepted his plea for forgiveness with open arms.

Evangelical Ousted Amid Gay Sex Scandal

An independent oversight board dismissed the Rev. Ted Haggard as senior pastor of the megachurch he founded, determining the influential evangelist had committed "sexually immoral conduct."

Evangelical Leader Says He Bought Drugs

The Rev. Ted Haggard said Friday he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute. But the influential Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man.

Key Evangelical Quits Amid Gay Sex Claim

The leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years.

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Why do GOPers survive sex scandals
Source: Christian Science Monitor

When a Republican affair is exposed, the left seems to assume that the religious right, with the exacting moral standards it tends to laud, will have one less general leading its "pro family" brigade.

All you need to know about Anti-Christ but were afraid to ask (video)
Source: veoh.com

Reasonably well done documentary about The Antichrist, a character the Bible says will rule the world according to principles contrary to Christianity. Features among others Ted Haggard and Benny Hinn, but also scholars and sceptics of the Dispensationalist movement.

Conversations with Ted Haggard (Part I)

A PLEA In the Author's Note for his book Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller writes: I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside Bagdad Theatre in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone.

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World
Source: Religion Dispatches

Is this still Christianity? Bruce Wilson offers a primer on what has been called "Third Wave Christianity," a global movement now almost 300 million-strong whose adherents believe they can abolish evil from the world by hunting witches, chasing demons from city limits, and ge …

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard, wife to appear on 'Divorce Court'
Source: NY Daily News

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard and his wife are planning another TV appearance, this time to talk about their marriage. The two are in Los Angeles taping an appearance on the syndicated Twentieth Television show "Divorce Court," to be broadcast nationally April 1.

Disgraced Mega-Church Pastor Ted Haggard and Wife to appear on "Divorce Court"
Source: The Denver Post

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard and his wife are planning another TV appearance, this time to talk about their marriage. The two are in Los Angeles taping an appearance on the Universal Fox show "Divorce Court," to be broadcast nationally April 1.

Focus on the Family's James Dobson Announces Post-Retirement Project: Producing Films and Media for Men
Source: CAP News

COLORADO SPRINGS (CAP) - James Dobson, the influential evangelical leader of Focus on the Family Inc.

Trials of Ted Haggard
Source: The New York Times

The article takes an interesting twist on a simple TV review, beginning with social commentary on the politician and Hollywood need to prove themselves righteous to an audience.

Oprah and Ted Haggard: Gay Sex Scandal Analysis

This week disgraced evangelical mega pastor, Ted Haggard resurfaced from exile. In 2006 Haggard, a married father of five admitted to engaging in gay sex with a former male prostitute as well as purchasing and using crystal meth.

Ted Haggard & Oprah Interview VIDEO
Source: showbizexpress.net

Ted Haggard, along with his wife Gayle, took to the Oprah Winfrey show today to promote the documentary and discuss his life-long struggle with his attraction to men.

Ted Haggard Still In The Closet, Phoenix First Assembly and American Express
Source: NY Daily News

Several years in a row, American Express Technologies decided to host executive speaking engagements called "Town Halls" to their employee base out of this North Phoenix Evangelical mega church.

Disgraced pastor faces more gay sex accusations - Ted Haggard
Source: Gazette.com

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Haggard's Church Discloses More on Sex Scandal
Source: The New York Times

DENVER — The New Life Church, a nationally known evangelical institution that fired its founding pastor, Ted Haggard, in 2006 over accusations that he had had sex with a male prostitute, made payments starting in 2007 to a young male church member who had a relationship with Mr.

Mike Jones Speaks Out About Latest Ted Haggard Revelations
Source: Box Turtle Bulletin

In a new, emotionally charged YouTube video, Mike Jones voices his anger with New Life Church and their past refusal to admit what they had known all along: that there were others in the church who had had a sexual relationship with then-Pastor Ted Haggard.

Ted Haggard New Gay Sex Allegations
Source: The Huffington Post

Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard — a revelation that comes as Haggard tries to repair his pub …

Box Turtle Bulletin: The Trials Of Ted Haggard
Source: Box Turtle Bulletin

What's this, a new author? If you take a look at the left side of this page you'll see there are three authors listed here at BTB. As a former patient of ex-gay therapist and NARTH founder Joe Nicolosi my specialty is ex-gay issues and video projects documenting ex-gay harm.

Meet Derek the Chastity Clown - paid for by your tax dollars
Source: progressivepuppy.com

The abstinence education clowns are now hiring actual clowns to teach sex education to middle schoolers - and they're using your tax dollars to do it! Of course their idea of "sex education" is the same tired misinformation religious fundies have been pushing since Reverend Ted  …

The Lost Shepherd: Ted Haggard's sex scandal cost him his church, and some of his faith.
Source: Newsweek

From his bedroom turned office in Colorado Springs, Ted Haggard prepares people for the afterlife. Not the roof-shaking "power encounters" with God that once defined him as founder of New Life Church and leader of the 30 million–strong National Association of Evangelicals.

Look on the bright side, you aren't Mrs. Ted Haggard
Source: 23/6

These are truly terrible times. You may have been laid-off. You may have been on the receiving end of a lay-off rumor. You may have been arrested for cooking meth in the home you share with the future son-in-law of the future of the Republican Party. Cheer up, little clown.

Ted Haggard is "ALIVE!!": Disgraced pastor returns, as Christian businessman
Source: Yahoo! News

Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.

Exclusive: Ted Haggard Breaks His Silence: Claims He Had Sexual Experience With Man at 7 Years Old
Source: ABC News

Ted Haggard, the disgraced former evangelical leader, recently broke his silence on the second anniversary of the scandal that brought him down.

Sundown on Colorado fundamentalists
Source: Salon.com

Interesting storie about the Mega church in Colorado Springs. I was surprised by how many Obama yard signs and bumper stickers I saw in Colorado Springs this weekend.

Bush: U.S. in midst of serious financial crisis | Industries | Financial Services & Real Estate | Reuters
Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday said the United States was in a serious financial crisis as he tried to convince Americans to support a $700 billion financial rescue plan.

Ex-Gay "Therapy" Didn't Work on Evangelical Pastor Ted Haggard
Source: thedenverchannel.com

Former mega-church pastor and head of the National Association of Evangelicals, Ted Haggard, has ended the treatment intended to cure his homosexuality after fifteen months.

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