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New Life Church

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    The Thorn, a Vegas-style passion play, takes Easter up a notch

    For hundreds of years, Christians all over the world have been telling the story of Jesus Christ's life and death in the form of dramatic theater. From the devout actors in the Philippines using actual nails-through-the-hands, to Mel Gibson grossing $600 million portraying the bloodiest Jesus in Hol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Gary Busey steals the show from Ted Haggard on Celebrity Wife Swap

    Heading into the airing of tonight's episode of Celebrity Wife Swap on ABC, the talk around here focused almost exclusively on Pastor Ted Haggard, who had to leave his mega New Life Church in Colorado Springs five years ago after "the scandal." But when the show aired at 8 p.m. Colorado time, "The ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    Strange but true news stories from the past year

    Also read: 2011 Hall of Shame

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Ted Haggard in GQ: Masturbation by male escort isn't "sex sex," he'd be bisexual if younger

    Ted Haggard.​The problem Ted Haggard is facing in his continuing effort to rehabilitate his image enough to become a national media star again is that the very thing he doesn't want to talk about -- his dalliance with male escort Mike Jones -- is pretty much the only thing that intrigues repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ted Haggard: Is reality TV in his future?

    Is Ted Haggard ready for his closeup?​Update, 11:25 a.m.: Ted Haggard has made his announcement. It involves a launch party for his new church and a possible documentary. Details below the original item, published at 8:36 a.m. Today at 10:30 a.m., embattled Colorado Springs evangelist Ted Hag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Ted Haggard's new church unlikely to feature massages -- damn it!

    "Let's start off with a lesson about forgiveness."​Every day, we pluck choice posts from Denver blogs. Here are three ripe ones. 5280's Michael de Yoanna hips us to disgraced Colorado Springs pastor Ted Haggard's new church, dubbed St. James -- presumably because the name New Life Church was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Top 10 Colorado sex acts of the decade

    A Flickr photo.​ Everybody loves a good, home-grown sex scandal. Especially scandals that involve Evangelical Christians, bestiality, horny moms and naughty schoolteachers. (Not all at once, sadly.) Colorado has played host to its fair share of salaciousness this past decade. Here, we look ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Top 10 Colorado shmucks of decade

    ​It ain't easy being a shmuck. Not as mean as an asshole, not as ignorant as a shithead, a shmuck takes idiocy to an epic level, a moron whose fall from grace has far-reaching repercussions. We've been celebrating weekly shmucks for a long, long time -- but to be named one of Colorado's top 10 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 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 gree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 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 Evange ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 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 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    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 handle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 anothe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    The "Welcome Back Haggard" Theme Song

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    The Top Ten Welcome Home Gifts for Ted Haggard

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 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.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2008

    Jesus Loves Irony

    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.

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2008

    More Pieces of the Matthew Murray Puzzle

    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.

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    Jonesin'

    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.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Me and Mr. Jones

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2008

    Mathew Murray Shooting God’s Plan?

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Does This Photograph Glorify Matthew Murray?

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2007

    Matthew Murray, Ted Haggard and Double Lives

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Matthew Murray’s Nightmare of Christianity

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

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

    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.

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    Larry Craig Shlepped Here!

    Sex marks the spot at these DIA bathrooms.

  • News

    August 23, 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.

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    Jonesing

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

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Me and Mr. Jones

    Blow jobs are short. Scandals are not.

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Panhandle With Care

    We're all just a home away from homeless.

  • News

    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.

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    Lots of Yuk

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

  • News

    December 28, 2006

    Year in Review: The Great Pretenders

    Welcome to the 2006 Hall of Shame.

  • News

    November 16, 2006

    Sin City

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

  • News

    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?

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2006

    Watch Your Step

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

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    Brave New World

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

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    On Call

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

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2006

    Taking the Fifth

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

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    The Message

    Waste Not

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    The Message

    Prophetable

  • 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.

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    One for All

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

  • News

    December 14, 1994

    COLORADO SPRINGS TAKES A HIT

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

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