It’s somewhat surprising that it took so long for this story to get some attention today. True, the allegation that Ted Haggard, pastor of the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, had a homosexual affair is just that–an allegation. But the news that he has stepped down…

Jesus brought us a new life in ultimate vulnerability. As a child he was dependent on the care and protection of others; he lived as a poor preacher without any political, economic, or military power; and he died nailed on a cross as a useless criminal. It is in this extreme vulnerability that our salvation…

He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant to all.” Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever…

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