Religion

Focus on Family: pro-life Super Bowl ad worth the $2.5m

MARK BARNA

It’s become the most debated Super Bowl ad that nobody has seen. Focus on the Family’s pro-life Super Bowl ad starring former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow has lit up talk radio, newspaper editorial pages and cable news channels.... Full story

PULPIT: Haggard says church needs to change

MARK BARNA

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THE PULPIT: The Haggards may be no flash in the pan

MARK BARNA

Ted Haggard is often lumped in with Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and other fallen religious leaders. Swaggart and Bakker eventually made it back to the pulpit, but to far diminished audiences. This will be Haggard’s fate, most say. But I think... Full story

Haitian orphans taking on new challenges, like Wal-Mart

MARK BARNA

The Ellsons have been incredibly patient waiting for their Haitian child to come home.But the arrival Sunday of 13-year-old Samantha in Colorado Springs means the task of parenting begins.“Now that she’s here, the real work... Full story

THE PULPIT: Local faith leaders explain the 'why' of Haiti tragedy

MARK BARNA

One saved. One unaccounted for. Why? Compassion International workers David Hames and Dan Woolley were yards apart in a hotel lobby in Haiti when the quake hit. Woolley was pulled out alive about 60 hours later. Hames remains unaccounted for as... Full story

Gayle Haggard: 'I was cut off by my church family at the time I needed them most'

MARK BARNA

Gayle Haggard remains a mystery to many people. She stayed with her husband, Ted Haggard, after his affair with a male escort became public more than three years ago. She was there when, months after his resignation as pastor of New Life Church,... Full story

Local man still missing in Haiti, hope fading

MARK BARNA

The senior pastor of Vanguard Church in Colorado Springs devoted his Sunday sermon to theodicy and church member David Hames, the Compassion International contractor still missing in Haiti nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquake. In an... Full story

THE PULPIT: Gayle Haggard will talk to Oprah about why she stayed

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Springs aid workers missing in Haiti

MARK BARNA

Two Compassion International staffers from Colorado Springs were working in Haiti at the time of the earthquake and they remain missing, Compassion spokesman Stephan Archer said Thursday. Of the 80 Compassion workers in Haiti, only a handful have... Full story

Compassion staffers from Springs are missing in Haiti

MARK BARNA

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