Subject: New Life Church

• Watch Your Step

  November 13, 2006

• Taking the Fifth

  November 2, 2006

• The Broncos, the New Life Church and Arvada Shootings, and Local TV Priorities

  December 10, 2007

• Matthew Murray’s Nightmare of Christianity

  December 11, 2007

• Matthew Murray, Ted Haggard and Double Lives

  December 12, 2007

• Does This Photograph Glorify Matthew Murray?

  December 13, 2007

• Mathew Murray Shooting God’s Plan?

  February 28, 2008

• Me and Mr. Jones

  March 12, 2008

• More Pieces of the Matthew Murray Puzzle

  March 13, 2008

• Jesus Loves Irony

  March 17, 2008

• The Top Ten Welcome Home Gifts for Ted Haggard

  June 23, 2008

• The "Welcome Back Haggard" Theme Song

  June 24, 2008

• Report: Ted Haggard Finally Admits to Sexual Contact With Mike Jones

  June 26, 2008

• The long silence of Matthew Murray's parents

  Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any comments from Ronald or Loretta Murray in the one-year anniversary stories about the church shootings in Arvada and Colorado Springs. But then, the Murrays haven't been eager to talk publicly about the multiple tragedies spawned by their deeply disturbed son Matthew, who killed four young people on December 9, 2007, before taking his own life. That's understandable. The Murrays were clearly blindsided by their son's shooting spree and were said to be "

  December 8, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, from calf-ropin' to budget-bustin'

  Governor Bill Ritter was at the last day of the National Western Stock Show, taking in the rodeo with his family (Ritter was one of twelve kids, all raised on a farm in eastern Aurora) -- and enjoying a few light moments before the hard work of the week ahead. When a steer broke free of his handlers and the rodeo announcer pronounced, "This is like trying to get the governor of Illinois out of office." Ritter wasn't the only one laughing. But he may have been laughing the hardest. Ritter and

  January 26, 2009

• Mike Jones demands apology from New Life Church in latest Ted Haggard scandal

  This morning on Peter Boyles' KHOW talk show, Mike Jones, the onetime male escort who went public about his relationship with nationally known New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, blasted New Life Church for covering up information that Haggard had been involved in a sexual relationship with another young man. (KRDO-TV, a Colorado Springs station, took the lead on this story, and will feature the man in a report slated to air tonight.) In the video above, he elaborates, declaring that he's been

  January 26, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 26 edition

  Look out below! Falling blogs! Today in Cafe Society: • Rock, paper, scissors, booze at Nine75. • Mark & Isabella now open in Belmar. • Just in time for the Super Bowl, a Milking It review of Cap'n Crunch's Touchdown Crunch. • Buenos Aires Grill to close. • Thanasi Foods thinks Bigs with bacon. • The year of the ox -- and a second Star. Today in Backbeat Online: • Live review: Umphrey's McGee at the Fillmore Auditorium. • Also caught live: The Meat Puppets at the Bluebird The

  January 26, 2009

• Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard's latest accuser

  Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines and featured on cable-news channels such as CNN after word leaked that another young man had come forward with an eyebrow-raising story. That tale debuted last night on KRDO-TV, Colorado Springs' ABC a

  January 27, 2009

• New Life Church shooting victim speaks out prior to Ted Haggard media tour

  Amid all the revelations connected with Ted Haggard's attempted resurrection on HBO and Oprah, the accusations of payoffs involving yet another young man lusted after by the former pastor ("Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard's latest accuser"), and assorted other sordidness, a greater bit of deception and denial at New Life Church has been largely overooked -- the conflicting stories about killer Matthew Murray's 2007 attack on the church and its aftermath. So kudos to KHOW's Pete

  January 28, 2009

• New York Times calls play about Colorado Springs "inquisitive"

  The poster for "This Beautiful City." The New York Times yesterday published a review of This Beautiful City, a play about Colorado Springs that, in the words of the New York-based theater troupe that performs it, "explores the Evangelical movement and its unofficial U.S capital." The Times praised the documentary play, which is based on interviews with Colorado Springs residents around the time the Ted Haggard scandal broke, as "engaging, inquisitive and evenhanded." The theater troupe, calle

  February 24, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: The dudes of Haggard

  "This is part of Ted's journey," Gayle Haggard told a reporter. "It's made him a better man. I see what has happened as a divine rescue." Of the Haggards' bank account, if nothing else. Three years ago Ted Haggard, then pastor of the New Life Church and head of the National Association of Evangelicals, had a weekly phone call with President George W. Bush. Now he's taking casting calls for reality shows -- specifically, Divorce Court. According to the Associated Press, Haggard and and his st

  March 19, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Revving up for the week ahead

  You auto know better: In advance of the Denver Auto Show, which revs up in the Colorado Convention Center April 1 through April 5, the Metro Denver Automobile Dealers Association is hosting the second annual Rocky Mountain Auto Summit today, covering everything from technology to financing to green developments. The seminars run from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Colorado Convention Center, room 301 -- and they're all free. You can find more details at www.denverautoshow.com -- but we're willing

  March 30, 2009

• Jonesin'

  March 13, 2008

• Stage Fright

  Mike Jones looked buff in the buff, but when the naked truth about a Denver ordinance was exposed, the nudity had to exit stage left.

  March 20, 2008

• Larry Craig Shlepped Here!

  Sex marks the spot at these DIA bathrooms.

  December 6, 2007

• Revenge of the Nerds

  More know-it-alls are taking to the bars to show off their big brains and pickle them at the same time.

  August 23, 2007

• Jonesing

  New Life Church has gotten a makeover since Ted Haggard left — as Mike Jones reports from the inside.

  July 12, 2007

• Me and Mr. Jones

  Blow jobs are short. Scandals are not.

  June 14, 2007

• Panhandle With Care

  We're all just a home away from homeless.

  March 1, 2007

• Life Swap

  More newspaper reporters are taking the leap to TV -- a move some print pros still see as consorting with the enemy.

  March 1, 2007

• Lots of Yuk

  If counseling didn’t do it, these late-night gabfests should set Ted Haggard straight.

  February 15, 2007

• Year in Review: The Great Pretenders

  Welcome to the 2006 Hall of Shame.

  December 28, 2006

• Sin City

  Colorado Springs has a message for James Dobson: Let Ted moo!

  November 16, 2006

• Tape Heads

  Channel 4 plans to phase out videotape in the coming year. Could the jobs of people who work with it be next?

  November 16, 2006

• Brave New World

  Meet The Real World: Denver" cast before they join the collective.

  November 9, 2006

• On Call

  Mike Jones wasn't the only one to get regular visits from "Art."

  November 9, 2006

• The Message

  Waste Not

  September 8, 2005

• The Message

  Prophetable

  May 26, 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.

  April 14, 2005

• One for All

  Charter schools are perfect for special-education kids. That's the problem.

  February 22, 2001

• COLORADO SPRINGS TAKES A HIT

  December 14, 1994

• Wake-Up Call: Ted Haggard and Norman Rockwell

  ​"It's a Norman Rockwell scene," Ted Haggard told the reporters gathered outside his Colorado Spring home last night, where the New Life Church founder and disgraced minister was about to start his first, off-the-record prayer meeting. "It's a 'Kumbaya' moment." A Norman Rockwell scene? Only if when he was done drawing Boy Scouts and barbers, the iconic chronicler of Americana dialed up male nude models such as Mike Jones, the Denver escort that Ted Haggard would call when he had a taste

  November 13, 2009