A few weeks ago I wrote about Ted Haggard, to start off a weekly series about Evangelical hypocrites. It has now been three weeks and this morning Haggard announced to the Colorado Springs media that he and his wife, Gayle Haggard, are starting a new church in their home. This new church was going to be named St. James Church.
Their new church already has a place on Ted Haggard’s webpage under the heading of St. James Church. Oddly at the moment, a few short hours after the announcement, the page for the church is still empty. I have to ask myself if this is a sign for things to come.
Along with this new turn in the Haggard’s life they are back in Colorado Springs, their hometown which they were driven out of after his gay sex scandal erupted in 2006.
Rightly so, the Christian Right is having its doubts. Has he really reformed? Has God really done the work in him that was needed to be done? Or will he fall from grace once again? (I mean Lucifer only fell once but he had the knowledge to stay down.)