Archive for May, 2010

Forgiveness and Ted Haggard

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.

We’re all uniquely the same

The folks at North Point decided to challenge the megachurch routine and raise some questions about the concept of a “worship” service:

Churches struggle with response to sexual identity issues

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.”