Bad news for McCain in Colorado Springs, Times blogger finds

A New York Times blogger discovers the news is not good for John McCain in Colorado Springs, where a lifelong Republican on the city council says she is abandoning her party’s nominee to vote for Barack Obama this year. Further endangering McCain’s prospects in Colorado’s largest Republican stronghold, the pastor who replaced former GOP heavyweight Ted Haggard leading one of the city’s largest mega-churches is staying on the sidelines, urging his flock to vote “for any political party.”

Ted Haggard Quits New Life ‘Restoration Team’

Technically, it only took three weeks of intensive “restoration” a full year ago to make Ted Haggard a “complete heterosexual.” But on Tuesday night, the new pastor of the Colorado Springs megachurch that Haggard founded has announced that Haggard…

New Life Church Guard Faced Discipline as MN Cop

Documents obtained by Colorado Confidential from the Minneapolis Civilian Police Review Authority show that in 1997 the woman who was credited with stopping Matthew Murray’s barrage at New Life Church on Sunday was disciplined and suspended from her job as…

Church Shootings Show Method in Media Madness

Sunday’s church killings offer more sad proof that local news is a well-oiled machine during times of crisis.

A Year Ago: ‘Ted Haggard Is The Farthest Thing From A Homosexual…’

A year ago an unknown male escort named Mike Jones appeared on a Denver radio talk show and dropped a bomb. He had this client, who, every month for three years, would come to his apartment, snort some meth and…

Amid the Latest Haggard Scandal, A New Chapter

As Ted Haggard’s cash-for-heaven scheme quickly dissolved around him this week, the church that the fallen pastor started 23 years ago in his basement, and is now the largest in Colorado, has selected a new pastor.

“This is…

Ted Haggard’s Cash-For-Heaven Offer

UPDATE: New information on the background of the group Families With a Mission and its founder, Paul Huberty, appears at the bottom of the story.

UPDATE II: On Sunday KRDO posted an e-mail statement it received from the Board…

Soulforce To Storm New Life Church

When New Life Church founder Ted Haggard went off to be “cured” of his homosexuality after being outed in November, the Texas-based gay group Soulforce launched a letter-writing campaign of sorts, to Free Pastor Ted.

Indeed, many…

New Life Still Praying

The latest word on the search for a permanent replacement for Pastor Ted Haggard is that, well, New Life Church’s metaphorical car is still parked.

More than six months have passed since Haggard was fired, long enough…

Nix On The Jones Book: “Invasive, Exploitive, And Not Well-Written”

After the big book chains nixed any Colorado Springs stops for Mike Jones and his just-released lurid book detailing trysts and the outing of Ted Haggard, publisher Seven Stories Press turned to Richard Skorman, owner of Poor Richard’s…