Brian Proffit's thoughts along the way
When Ted Haggard returned to Colorado Springs he denied he was going to start a new church. When he and his wife started "prayer meetings" and "Bible studies" that attracted more than 100 people, he denied he was starting a new church. When he registered St. James Church three weeks ago, we announced that he [...]
It’s official—Ted Haggard is once again the head of a church. Three and a half years after the sex and drug scandal that caused his resignation from Colorado Springs’ New Life Church in November 2006, Haggard has incorporated a church named St. James in the barn on Old Ranch Road where he began hosting overflowing “prayer meetings” last November.
The folks at North Point decided to challenge the megachurch routine and raise some questions about the concept of a “worship” service:
At the Catalyst West church leadership conference last week, Dan Kimball (author of The Emerging Church and They Love Jesus But Not The Church) told me, “If we hold the church’s historical view of sexuality, it doesn’t mean we are fundamentalists or hateful.”
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation asked the Army this week to change the emblem at Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson (outside Colorado Springs). The Latin emblem says “Pro deo et humanitate” or “For God and humanity.” Like many others, the Associated Press was fooled by the organization’s deliberately misleading name and referred to [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. File) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today on the case between the University of California’s Hastings Law School and the Christian Legal Society (CLS). The CLS has been barred from recognition by the law school because all recognized groups may not exclude people due to religious [...]
In March 2009, Sojourners (a group of “Christians for justice and peace”) released A Covenant For Civility, an attempt to get Christians everywhere to commit to a more gracious level of interaction with others—especially those with whom we might disagree. Many prominent leaders have signed the covenant. Saturday one of them backed out. Dr. George [...]
We’re learning a lot about the Hutaree, a group of vigilantes in the northern Midwest that styled themselves a “Christian militia.” Among other things, we’ve learned that there is nothing Christian about their statements, plans, or actions. Nine members of this group were arrested and charged with “seditious conspiracy,” or plotting to wage war against [...]
From my article as Denver Christianity Examiner. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb, of the District Court in Madison, Wisconsin, ruled yesterday that the National Day of Prayer created by Congress in 1952 and reaffirmed by them in 1988 is unconstitutional. In a confusing ruling, Crabb wrote that government involvement in prayer may be [...]
In a rare and admirable moment when respect overpowered politics, the Oklahoma state senate passed a resolution Tuesday honoring the life and legacy of pastor Billie Joe Daugherty, who died last year of lymphoma. The state house of representatives and senate passed concurrent bills containing language you don’t ordinarily find in congressional documents: Reverend Daugherty [...]
