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Category: Religion
Friday, November 13, 2009
 If anyone is making a comeback this year, it’s Colorado Springs pastor Ted Haggard, who says he was “trying to go low” with his open-to-the-public prayer meeting last night at his house, his first time leading fellow Christians since he resigned from New Life Church in 2006 amid allegations of a sex-and-drugs scandal (via The Associated Press).
Haggard nevertheless captured the spotlight as he welcomed more than 110 people to his home Thursday, calling it a “Kumbaya moment,” writes the Colorado Springs Gazette.
“People here tonight believe in resurrection and me,” he proclaimed as visitors said they came to be with Haggard out of grace and forgiveness.
“Christians are to forgive, and I have forgiven Ted,” says the Reverend Alan Hawkins, of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
While Haggard tells the AP he isn’t trying to build a new New Life Church, the Gazette reports Haggard might have to hold worship at a larger Colorado Springs venue because of the turnout. The gatherings, he admits, may “evolve” into a formal nonprofit church.
Posted at 11:00 am by Michael de Yoanna
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Focus on the Family’s patriarch James Dobson may have reached the end of an era as he prepares to leave the Colorado Springs-based evangelical media empire’s radio show. But the organization still flexes conservative muscle when it comes to the issue of gay marriage.
The latest battleground was Maine, where voters reversed a state law earlier this week that allowed same-sex couples to marry, a national trend against gay marriage that includes California, Hawaii, and myriad other states (via The Wall Street Journal).
Focus on the Family Action, the organization’s political arm, poured in $115,266 to help the coalition support the repeal, according to election records analyzed by the Colorado Springs Gazette. Jenny Tyree, Focus’ marriage analyst, credits Focus founder James Dobson with the win, saying his views on traditional marriage still resonate with Americans.
Posted at 12:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
 More than two decades ago, Ted Haggard began what would become New Life Church in his Colorado Springs home. With the help of his wife, Gayle, the church grew from 20 members to 14,000 and onto a $50 million campus.
Now, after his fall from grace and highly publicized recovery, Haggard has returned to prayer meetings in his house.
“It’s an exploratory meeting,” Haggard tells The Denver Post. “We need a core team to relate to as a spiritual family. We expect just a handful of people, but anybody’s welcome. We’ll see where it goes.”
Haggard, who became an insurance salesman, left Colorado after being exposed in a drugs-and-prostitution scandal, but eventually returned to his Colorado Springs home at 1865 Old Ranch Road.
Haggard’s old evangelical friends are not happy to hear about his return, including C. Peter Wagner, who co-founded the World Prayer Center with Haggard and says Haggard should seek approval before leading others in worship (via the Colorado Springs Gazette). Gary Black, who leads a missionary group and worked with Haggard in the 1990s, was taken aback: “I would be shocked to think he’s ready to lead a church.”
Posted at 2:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Monday, November 2, 2009
 After 30 years on the airwaves, Focus on the Family’s founder, James Dobson, will stop hosting his internationally syndicated radio program.
February 28, 2010, will bring an end to his daily presence with the politically influential, nonprofit evangelical group based in Colorado Springs, which has consistently rallied for what it considers traditional family values.
The decision marks a long, slow transition that began in 2003, when Dobson, a child psychologist who is now 73, turned over the presidency of Focus to Jim Daly. Last year, Dobson resigned as chairman (via Colorado Springs Gazette). Dobson’s health is not at issue, and no replacement has been chosen for the show, according to Christian Examiner.
Gary Bauer, president of American Values and a frequent guest on Dobson’s radio show over the years, praised Dobson, while psychotherapist Ralph Blair, founder of New York-based Evangelicals Concerned, a support group for gay and lesbian Christians, considers Dobson’s legacy tarnished by his opposition to same-sex relationships and a lack of knowledge behind his theories about them.
Dobson is expected to continue writing books and will remain active in public life after he leaves the radio show, says spokesman Gary Schneeberger. Dobson, who was profiled in July 2006 by 5280, was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame last year (via Radio Ink.)
Posted at 3:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
While there’s plenty of support for ending the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the culture wars rage on in the nation’s ballot boxes, including in Maine, where likely voters are being bombarded with television and radio ads warning that if same-sex marriage isn’t outlawed in the upcoming election, the consequences will be dire.
In doom-and-gloom ads similar to those that ran in California before voters enacted a ban on gay marriage there, a couple from Massachusetts, where same-gender marriage is legal, say their son came home from school and said he was taught that boys could marry other boys (via NPR). “He’s in second grade!” an outraged mother says.
And, as was the case in California last year, the political arm of the Colorado Springs evangelical group Focus on the Family is ponying up money for such ads. Focus on the Family Action has donated more than $98,000 to Stand for Marriage Maine, a coalition backing the measure on the November 3 ballot to overturn the state legislature’s legalization of gay marriage, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Meanwhile, back in Colorado, a former Focus on the Family radio-ministry employee, Juan Alberto Ovalle, was sentenced to five years of intensive probation after attempting to lure an officer posing as an underage teen into having sex with him, writes The Denver Post.
Posted at 1:15 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Friday, October 9, 2009
 Colorado Rockies fans can be excused for chewed-up finger nails after yesterday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies. The 5-4 Rockies win ties the best-of-five series at a game apiece, heading into a chilly Coors Field for Saturday’s game.
The Denver Post notes the differences between games one and two, with the Rockies being more patient at the plate yesterday and taking advantage of pitches they could hit.
Some highlights: Rockies outfielder and emerging star Carlos Gonzales led off the game with a single and ended up scoring later in the inning. In the fourth inning, Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba (pictured) crushed a two-run homerun into the left-field seats (via Purple Row).
Center fielder Dexter Fowler brought a run in with a sacrifice fly later in the game, and then outfielder Ryan Spilborghs hit a double to push the lead to 5-3. The Phillies bounced back to within one run, but Rockies closer Huston Street won the game in the bottom of the ninth.
Maybe the Rockies have God on their side? (more…)
Posted at 9:00 am by AJ Vicens
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Monday, September 21, 2009
 If the interparty challenge from fellow Democrat Andrew Romanoff weren’t enough, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet now has the right-wing to worry about. Bennet (pictured) is one of about a dozen potential targets in 2010 for the Family Research Council’s FRC Action group.
But Bennet isn’t on their list for his morals or voting record. Rather, it seems, FRC Action prefers Republicans and points out that Bennet “has never won a statewide race,” adding, “Conservatives can take back this important seat” (via The Colorado Independent).
Meanwhile, you can guess how Bennet’s remarks on Saturday during an immigration forum might go over with some conservatives. He cited support for the DREAM Act, which provides in-state tuition for certain undocumented students who qualify, according to the Aurora Sentinel.
“We need to connect people to opportunity in a way that’s fair to everyone,” he said. “Those who work hard and play by the rules should have the chance to live the American dream. We all must fight for those values.” (more…)
Posted at 2:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
The cuts keep coming at Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs-based evangelical ministry that’s known for its socially conservative politics.
In a reorganization announced yesterday, Focus will eliminate another 75 jobs—about eight percent of its workforce—writes the Colorado Springs Gazette, a move that will force the closure of the creative division of the ministry’s advertising department and follows the end of Focus’ sponsorship of the Love Won Out program, which purports to turn gays and lesbians straight.
In 2002, Focus claimed 1,400 employees, but as of one year ago, the organization dropped to 1,155 people. Further cuts this year, including those announced on Wednesday, have swiftly trimmed the workforce to 860. Last November spokesman Gary Schneeberger said Focus was struggling with a $6 million budget shortfall.
“The economic reality out there is recession. Faced with that, we looked at everything we could do to improve structure, strategy and efficiency while carrying out the work we’re called to do—helping families thrive,” Schneeberger told The Denver Post.
Last month Focus began a special fundraising campaign, including letters to about 800,000 possible donors. This year’s decline in revenues was linked to dwindling donations from large donors that, in the past, wrote checks for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, Schneeberger says.
Posted at 2:30 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Randy Brinson, a conservative political consultant in Alabama, has problems with an advertising push on Christian and country-music radio stations in 10 states, including our own. His main issue is that the ads, funded by a left-tilting coalition, argue that Congress should, as a matter of Biblical importance, do what it can to attack industrial and other pollution believed to be causing global warming.
“As our seas rise, crops wither and rivers run dry, God’s creation cries out for relief,” warns one ad (via The Wall Street Journal). Another cites the Gospel of John and the effort of energy big-wigs to shoot down regulations: “Please join the faithful in speaking out against the powerful.”
Brinson says this is the first time a “moderate group of evangelicals” have joined forces–part of a trend in which liberal Christians are jumping into the a political arena that used to be dominated by the Christian right. The group will spend roughly $150,000 in coming months to enlist pastors in the West, including Colorado, to address climate-change legislation as it enters the Senate. Another effort will call for affordable health insurance–by a coalition of Faith in Public Life, Sojourners, and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Meanwhile… Remember when voters defeated the amendment to define a fertilized human egg as a person last fall? Personhood USA and Colorado Right to Life are ready to try again in 2010, reports The Colorado Statesman. Only this time, the word “fertilization” has been removed because it might protect cloning. Any final language must be approved by state election officials, according to The Denver Post.
Posted at 1:45 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
 Women who work for Focus on the Family can ditch the dresses and pantyhose if they want. The Colorado Springs-based evangelical Christian organization has relaxed its “Leave it to Beaver”-like dress code so that the ladies may now wear Hillary Clinton-style pantsuits and the men can skip the neckties.
Sorry, though, no 1980s-style spandex, writes the Colorado Springs Gazette, which reports that a tie-less Jim Daly, Focus’ president and CEO, received a standing ovation after the announcement was made.
“During exit interviews, people always complained about the dress code,” Daly says, adding that the new code might help attract young tech workers.
The Denver Post recently featured Daly, who told the story of his difficult childhood and being handpicked by James Dobson as a replacement to lead the organization so that Dobson could focus on other matters, such as his radio show. Dobson launched the empire to become the most influential Christian in America, as 5280 wrote back in 2006.
And while Focus employees might be dressing down, the organization hasn’t backed down in the nation’s culture war. Just yesterday Focus criticized President Barack Obama for extending benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees.
Posted at 2:45 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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