Ted Haggard climbed onto a bale of hay, Bible balanced in his palm. "Welcome to my barn," he called out.
"Does anybody need a blanket?" his wife, Gayle, inquired as men and women in down coats shivered in the frigid November air. Some huddled underneath a space heater.
Then the blue-jeans-clad preacher began chanting: "God is good, God is good, God is good."
This musty barn next to the Haggard home is barely two miles -- but a universe away -- from the massive stage the former evangelical star once occupied at New Life Church. There, he would appear every Sunday before microphones, giant television screens and a congregation so large that services had to be held in shifts.
But in late 2006 came what Haggard, now 53, refers to as "the crisis," the revelation that he'd had a sexual relationship with a male escort. Haggard resigned from the church he had started in his basement 25 years ago and left Colorado Springs.
Now he's back and, some speculate, launching his second act.
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Source: DeeDee Correll, Los Angeles Times
Then the blue-jeans-clad preacher began chanting: "God is good, God is good, God is good."
This musty barn next to the Haggard home is barely two miles -- but a universe away -- from the massive stage the former evangelical star once occupied at New Life Church. There, he would appear every Sunday before microphones, giant television screens and a congregation so large that services had to be held in shifts.
But in late 2006 came what Haggard, now 53, refers to as "the crisis," the revelation that he'd had a sexual relationship with a male escort. Haggard resigned from the church he had started in his basement 25 years ago and left Colorado Springs.
Now he's back and, some speculate, launching his second act.
Click Here to Read More...
Source: DeeDee Correll, Los Angeles Times
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