A Pastor's Fall From Grace

摘要

The Rev. Ted Haggard had boyish dimples and a perpetual placid smile, but spoke of demons on earth. As a young pastor in Colorado Springs, Colo., he tore apart the local phone book and prayed over every name. He warned of "Satanists" and covens abroad in the city. Over time, his New Life evangelical church grew to be among the most powerful houses of wor- ship in the country, with a congregation some 14,000 strong. Haggard called these faithful "Puritan descendants, but spoke of the omnipresence of sin. To be a Christian, he warned, "is to be in a constant state of war."