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Christianity

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Tim Tebow to become Times Square Tim in New York, says Focus on the Family

    After the Broncos traded Tim Tebow to the Jets, televangelist Pat Robertson accused Denver of treating Tebow shabbily. But a spokesman for Colorado Springs' Focus on the Family, for which Tebow made a 2010 Super Bowl ad, doesn't echo this claim. Instead, he believes the events that led the Broncos t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    The Book of Mormon free tickets? Kind of....

    Hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created a musical about a cannibal when they were University of Colorado film students, have an even more unlikely hit on their hands with The Book of Mormon. The boffo Broadway musical will start its tour here in August -- and tickets sold out fast S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Reader: You wouldn't dare write about Jews or Muslims the way you did about Mormons

    ​Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in Utah, offered up t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Five things you need to know about Mormons

    Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created The Book of Mormon , are hometown heroes -- and that alone is reason for a "Glory Hallelujah" all around. Tickets for the musical sold out in record time yesterday; for those lucky enough to have snagged them, there are a few things about the LDS faith that yo ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2012

    Why do Mexicans find Mormonism so fascinating?

    Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created The Book of Mormon , are hometown heroes -- and that alone is reason for a "Glory Hallelujah" all around. Tickets for the musical sold out in record time yesterday; for those lucky enough to have snagged them, there are a few things about the LDS faith that yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Colorado comedian Lori Callahan sticks it to the Mormons

    Lori Callahan is not a Mormon.​Even though we may have made the "wrong assumption, wrong conclusion" about the onslaught of "I'm a Mormon" billboards across the state, comedian Lori Callahan still sees a correlation. She can't help but think that as the election draws closer, Republican presid ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2011

    Mormons: A shallow yet helpful guide to see if you should hate them or not

    Lori Callahan is not a Mormon.​Even though we may have made the "wrong assumption, wrong conclusion" about the onslaught of "I'm a Mormon" billboards across the state, comedian Lori Callahan still sees a correlation. She can't help but think that as the election draws closer, Republican presid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests coordinate protests with filing against Vatican

    Big pics below.​Yesterday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests accused the Vatican, as well as four officials, including Pope Benedict XVI, of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. To draw more attention to this action, members of SNAP's Denver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Al Franken destroys Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery at same-sex marriage hearing

    ​It's good to know that Focus on the Family is still around to provide unintentional comedy when that organization's narrow-minded rhetoric slams head-first into reality. Case in point: On Wednesday during a Senate same-sex marriage hearing, Focus on the Family, represented by senior lobbyist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Comment of the day: "For giving G-d the finger, Trey Parker and Matt Stone received a Tony."

    Trey Parker​Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the Colorado boys who made the big time with South Park, are used to pushing the envelope and making people mad. But they managed to make one hthalljr so angry by winning nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon that he forgot ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Trey Parker thanks Joseph Smith, the other author of The Book of Mormon

    broadway.comCollaborators Trey Parker (left) and Joseph Smith.​Local boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone made good -- very, very good -- last night when the former University of Colorado students won nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon. But while they were embraced by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Priest is this week's most ridiculous trailer

    ​OMG like how hot are vampires right now? So hot, is how hot they are right now, but as everyone knows, Dracula is pretty much played out and the whole vampires-as-sexy-brooding-potential-lovers thing is already taken -- what we need is a new angle on vampires. So let's see... how about priest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Doing us proud: The Book of Mormon sweeps the Tonys with fourteen nominations

    ​It's been not much more than a month since The Book of Mormon, the sweet and dirty musical send-up of Mormonism from South Park creators and Denver locals Trey Parker and Matt Stone, opened on Broadway to the adulation of everybody -- and now its dominance is official: Yesterday, Book of Morm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Comment of the day: "Why pay to drink from the gutter?"

    ​Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado's most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two "elders" on a mission trip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    The Book of Mormon opens on Broadway to glowing reviews. Here's a look back.

    Bring it back home!​Type "The Book of Mormon" into Google right now, and the first thing to come is the eponymous play by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, two Colorado boys who went on to become, we think it's fair to say at this point, the greatest satirists of a generation. From South Park to Tea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Katia Birge's case of alleged rape by a Catholic lay minister scheduled to go to trial in March

    ​ Last week, we wrote about the case of Katia Birge, who claims to have been raped by a Denver Catholic lay minister in 2008. Today, her father, attorney Tom Birge, called to dispute a statement made by the Archdiocese of Denver spokeswoman -- and to clarify other points.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Katia Birge's case of alleged rape by a Catholic lay minister: Does it signal new kind of abuse?

    Chaput.​ SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is criticizing Catholic officials in Denver, including Archbishop Charles Chaput, for their handling of the Katia Birge case. Birge claims to have been raped by a Denver lay minister in 2008, when she was 25 years old.

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Our Lady of Guadalupe Church members fight to restore mural of Mexican patron saint

    A now-covered painting.​This afternoon, a group of about thirty Catholics from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in North Denver marched into the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Denver. Their mission? To deliver a letter asking the archbishop for a third time to restore the church's mural of Ou ... More >>

  • News

    August 19, 2010

    How Mormons sold their religion to Mexicans

    A now-covered painting.​This afternoon, a group of about thirty Catholics from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in North Denver marched into the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Denver. Their mission? To deliver a letter asking the archbishop for a third time to restore the church's mural of Ou ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Is the number of Mexican Mormons growing?

    A now-covered painting.​This afternoon, a group of about thirty Catholics from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in North Denver marched into the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Denver. Their mission? To deliver a letter asking the archbishop for a third time to restore the church's mural of Ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Focus on the Family Action's rebranding as CitizenLink a bid to "minimize the confusion"

    A CitizenLink graphic gives the two major parties equal time -- kind of.​Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action are not one and the same. The former is a 501(c)(3) founded in 1977 by the Reverend James Dobson to promote family values from a Christian perspect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone: What's their plan for bringing Mormons to Broadway?

    ​Now that South Park bad boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced plans for a Broadway production titled The Book of Mormon, congregants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are bracing themselves for some savage jokes about polygamous prophets, complicated underwear, annoy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Last Night: Evangelicals at the Hi-Dive

    Evangelicals​ Evangelicals, Holiday Shores, Candy Claws Monday, November 9 The Hi-Dive Better Than: (Sorry about this) The Broncos offense Maybe it's a low blow, but Josh Jones of Evangelicals was responsible for tingling more spines than Brandon Marshall on Monday night, despite the fact th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Focus on the Family wants your latte money

    Focus on the Family president and CEO Jim Daly.​The Colorado Springs Gazette's parent company may have declared bankruptcy this week, but the paper's still reporting the big news in its community, including details about layoffs at Springs-based Focus on the Family; 75 jobs, or about 8 percent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Denver archbishop to investigate controversial Legion of Christ

    Sixty Legionnaires of Christ receive their ordination from Pope John Paul II in 1991.​The Legion of Christ made the wrong kind of headlines when it was revealed that the Catholic organization's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, had fathered children -- which means he ... More >>

  • Film

    May 14, 2009

    Angels & Demons

    Sixty Legionnaires of Christ receive their ordination from Pope John Paul II in 1991.​The Legion of Christ made the wrong kind of headlines when it was revealed that the Catholic organization's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, had fathered children -- which means he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    The Bob Beauprez robo-calls and the Solidarity Institute

    Sixty Legionnaires of Christ receive their ordination from Pope John Paul II in 1991.​The Legion of Christ made the wrong kind of headlines when it was revealed that the Catholic organization's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, had fathered children -- which means he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    Q&A with Scott Pomfret, author of Since My Last Confession

    Sixty Legionnaires of Christ receive their ordination from Pope John Paul II in 1991.​The Legion of Christ made the wrong kind of headlines when it was revealed that the Catholic organization's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, had fathered children -- which means he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    Wayne Laugesen Vs. Richard Baker: The Debate

    Sixty Legionnaires of Christ receive their ordination from Pope John Paul II in 1991.​The Legion of Christ made the wrong kind of headlines when it was revealed that the Catholic organization's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, had fathered children -- which means he ... More >>

  • Music

    October 12, 2006

    For God's Sake

    The Thermals have fun with fundamentalism.

  • News

    April 14, 2005

    A House Divided

    When Reverend Benjamin Reynolds opened his church to gays, some called it a sin. He calls it a mission from God.

  • Goods & Services

    March 24, 2005

    Best Place to Buy Poperphernalia

    The Catholic Store

  • Culture

    September 30, 2004

    Passionless Christianity

    The Chancellor's Tale pays lip service to the Church.

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    The Message

    The Pope's DJ

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Rome on the Range

    The pending sale of Good Shepherd Elementary sticks close to home.

  • Film

    April 18, 2002

    Joshua Needs Saving

    Bringing the Savior to a small town doesn't guarantee salvation.

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Born to Believe

    Church members had faith that God would heal their children. But often faith wasn't enough.

  • News

    December 23, 1999

    Soup With a Smile

    Their mission is to help the homeless, but now the Catholic Workers are trying to keep a roof over their own heads.

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    The Black Sheep

    Unitarian minister Joel Miller finds out it's hard to lead the wrong kind of church in southwest Jefferson County

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Preach for the Stars

    Meet Bill McCartney's good buddy, golfing pal and spiritual partner: Pastor James Ryle.

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    Big Wheel

    Local Baptist preacher Acen Phillips has a passel of fancy cars and a devil of a history in court.

  • News

    August 14, 1997

    King James's Version

    James Dobson issues gender "guidelines" for the country's most popular Bible.

  • News

    May 1, 1997

    God's Own Party

    Everything's divine in Arvada, where the GOP has veered sharply to the religious right.

  • News

    October 31, 1996

    The Vision Thing

    A local conference on apparitions of the Virgin Mary features a Medjugorje speaker. The critics hoot.

  • News

    August 15, 1996

    Sanctuary

    For a century this inner-city church has served as a refuge. But its most important mission has always been outside the walls.

  • Music

    May 23, 1996

    Bloodletting

    Performance artist Cristofer Lix talks and sings about living with AIDS.

  • News

    November 15, 1995

    SET IN STONE

    ROY NEAL FOUND HIS CALLING THROUGH TROWEL AND ERROR.

  • News

    May 4, 1994

    OFF LIMITS

    ROY NEAL FOUND HIS CALLING THROUGH TROWEL AND ERROR.

  • News

    February 16, 1994

    EXPERIENCE NOT NEEDED

    DO TEACHERS GET BETTER WITH AGE? ASK THOSE WHO WERE LET GO AT MACHEBEUF HIGH.

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