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

By | 11.02.07 | 9:27 am

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

By | 08.28.07 | 12:54 pm

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

By | 08.23.07 | 12:20 pm

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

Ted’s Gone, But The Haggard House Remains

By | 08.07.07 | 5:53 pm

New Life Church has rolled out Pastor Brady Boyd, who will be taking the helm of Colorado’s largest mega-church and possibly ending the long drama following the fall of Pastor Ted Haggard.

In the months since Haggard

Soulforce To Storm New Life Church

By | 07.08.07 | 7:00 am

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…

Haggard Outer To Appear In C. Springs After All

By | 07.01.07 | 10:42 am

Mike Jones, masseuse to Pastor Ted Haggard who most recently wrote a potboiler of an expose about his time with Ted, will make appearances in Colorado Springs after all.

After initially being rejected for appearances by big…

Mike In Minneapolis

By | 06.22.07 | 3:35 pm

Mike Jones, gay escort, continues his march across America.

Click here for Minnesota Monitor’s coverage of Jones’ book tour stop in Minneapolis, where he talked about how his family barely talks to him anymore, how shoddily he’s…

New Life Still Praying

By | 06.20.07 | 7:00 am

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…

Mike Jones Gets Ready To Read

By | 06.18.07 | 2:44 pm

In anticipation of Mike Jones’ book signing in Denver tonight, The Rocky‘s Mark Wolf featured the outer of Pastor Ted Haggard as a guest on his Rocky Talk Live blog this morning.

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

By | 06.15.07 | 10:43 am

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…