{"id":4917,"date":"2010-08-30T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2017-11-19T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T15:27:08","slug":"wall-street-journal-ted-haggard-climbs-back-in-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wall-street-journal-ted-haggard-climbs-back-in-pulpit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal: Ted Haggard Climbs Back in Pulpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.\u2014 The Rev. Ted Haggard stood at a pulpit made from stacked buckets one recent Sunday and announced his resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Haggard was forced to resign nearly four years ago as president of the politically powerful National Association of Evangelicals and to step down from the megachurch he founded, after admitting that he had bought methamphetamine from, and had a sexual encounter with, a gay prostitute.<\/p>\n<p>Once one of the most prominent church leaders in the U.S., Mr. Haggard confessed in a tortured letter, calling himself &#8220;a deceiver and a liar&#8221; who had long wrestled with desires he described as &#8220;repulsive and dark.&#8221; He signed a contract promising to follow a path laid out by fellow clergy: to find a new career in a new state and to stay away from pastoral work. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130526045342\/http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704249004575385170843908594.html\">Click here <\/a>to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cTeg Haggard Story Will Raise Serious Questions For All\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=480\">\u201cTeg Haggard Story Will Raise Serious Questions For All\u201d<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; From August 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.\u2014 The Rev&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","category-signs-of-the-times","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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