Tag: Ted Haggard
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New Life Church purges Ted Haggard, moves forward ‘doing amazing things:’ Pastor Boyd
Sixteen years have passed since a sex scandal led overseers of New Life Church in Colorado Springs to fire Ted Haggard as senior pastor from the church he founded in 1984 and led for 22 years. It’s a legacy that Pastor Brady Boyd, Haggard’s successor at New Life, wishes would fade into history. But Boyd…
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Powerhouse preacher Ted Haggard faces new allegations of illicit behavior
National evangelical Christian powerhouse Ted Haggard, who founded New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 1984, grew it to 14,000 worshippers and was excommunicated in 2006 amid accusations that he paid a male escort for sex and was using methamphetamine, is facing new allegations from another congregation he started in 2010, Saint James Church. Some…