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When Jimmy Swaggart was forced to step away from the pulpit because of his sexual indulgences, a national news magazine ran a photo of Swaggart in tears above the headline: Jimmy's Turn.
After Pastor Ted Haggard's "mea culpa" letter was read from the pulpit of his New Life Church Sunday, it was suddenly "Ted's Turn." Although not going into specifics, Haggard all but admitted that while railing against homosexuality from the pulpit, he had, for years, secretly been indulging himself with a homosexual prostitute.
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PASTOR TED HAGGARD HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY
NOVEMBER 3, 2006
SPEAKER: PASTOR TED HAGGARD
[*] HAGGARD: As we talked the other night, we're so ...
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Disgraced pastor will swap partners with Gary Busey
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard and Hollywood actor Gary Busey are trading partners for a week for an upcoming edition of ABC-TV's "Celebrity Wife Swap.
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Lifetree Caf
Lifetree Caf, located at LifeSpace, 2294 Nail Road W. in Horn Lake, is hosting a free program on disgraced pastor Ted Haggard, who reveals his struggle with temptation in an exclusive filmed interview Thursday at 7 p.m. Call (901) 493-6514.
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The exposure of Pastor Ted's clandestine life as an illegal drug purchaser and patron of a gay masseur/escort didn't prevent the passage of Colorado's anti-gay marriage amendment, but it did rattle Colorado Springs with shocks sufficient to turn This Beautifiil City into a sort of tentative younger brother to Tectonic Theater's The Laramie Project. The trick starts to wear dangerously thin as the play's bigger acting tasks arise, but by then Cromer (who also plays the equally flat-spoken Stage Manager) has another wicked surprise for us, a rebuke to Wilder's faith in theatrical innocence that simultaneously reaffirms Our Town's point Cromer's canniness won't be to everyone's taste, but it'll stick in your brain, and bring Wilder with it The main reason to see The Winter's Tale (BAM Har...
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TO OUR READERS: New Life Church marked the 22nd anniversary of its founding this week... without its founder. As the church moves forward, here's a look back at the rise and fall of the Rev. Ted Haggard, one of the most important figures in Colorado Springs' recent history.
Two years ago, New Life Church threw itself a party. It had reason to celebrate. Its stateof-the-art, 7,500-seat auditorium had just opened. It was the largest church in the state. And its charismatic leader, the man they called Pastor Ted, was one of evangelicalism's prime movers.
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Some wish the worst for former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who announced plans for his new church Wednesday.
Good luck to him, I guess, but what I can't quite grasp is why clerics who have been spectacularly ruined as he was don't just go sell life insurance, or something," wrote Dallas Morning News editorialist Rod Dreher, in a blog for Beliefnet.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - 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.
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Former New Life pastor Ted Haggard warmly greeted the more than 110 people who arrived for a Thursday evening prayer gathering at his north Colorado Springs home.
It's a Kumbaya moment," Haggard said. "People here tonight believe in resurrection and me. They understand love.
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Haggard holding prayer meetings
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) -- 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.