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Highlands Church takes all-inclusive approach to homosexuality

Mark Achtemeier said his views changed after witnessing the real lives of gay Christians (. Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post ) An evangelical church can be a scary place for gay people, yet the Rev. Mark Tidd's Highlands Church in Denver is trying " ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: James Dobson,  Focus on the Family

"President or Jihad?" billboard in Wheat Ridge sparks boycott, threats

Maintenance man David Lee was at work Friday on final touches to the billboard at Wolf Automotive, near Interstate 70 in Wheat Ridge. Auto dealer Phil Wolf said, "I've had two ladies go home terrified because of the threats we've had." (David ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  David Lee,  U.S. Republican Party,  Rush Limbaugh,  Glenn Beck

Haggard holds prayer service at Springs home

COLORADO SPRINGS — Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard led worshipers for the first time since scandal forced his exile from his New Life Church congregation as about 110 people showed up for a prayer meeting in his home Thursday evening. Haggard said ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ted Haggard,  HBO,  Larry King

Archbishop Chaput: Promises were broken on abortion

Denver Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput will address parishioners on health care reform — and more specifically abortion — in a letter to be read at Masses this weekend. In his column in the Denver Catholic Register on Wednesday, Chaput said ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

Focus on the Family's Dobson slates exit for February

James C. Dobson founded the conservative Christian ministry. "One word I don't suspect we'll hear him use is 'retirement,' " says a Focus exec. (Denver Post file photo ) Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson will end his 32-year stint as the ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Focus on the Family,  Barack Obama

Cities' budgets don't appear to be snowed under

The early crunch of snow underfoot — and even snow up to the kneecaps — in October doesn't necessarily mean budget crunches. Timing is everything. This snow is either so early or so late, depending on a government's budget year, that it's "too soon to ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Ann Williams

Denver Catholic schools gain national accreditation

The Archdiocese of Denver Catholic Schools on Wednesday said that its school system has been accredited by a nationally recognized service. The Denver Archdiocese is the eighth Catholic school district in the nation to receive this type of validation, ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  28 Oct 2009

Worshippers at Old Country Church are well-versed in bluegrass

On Saturday nights, a small congregation trickles into the Old Country Church for a worship service in which banjos, fiddles and various stringed instruments are as plentiful as people. Virtuosity goes hand in hand with virtue here. Under the white ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  19 Oct 2009

Experts say TV cameras alter family dynamics, like in "balloon boy" case

suspected passenger — their 6-year-old son. The event capped a history of family exposure through mass media, and quickly intensified to include allegations that the experimental aircraft had been intentionally freed as part of an elaborate ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Mayumi Heene,  Richard Heene,  Jon Gosselin

Nigar Nazar — perhaps the only woman cartoonist in Pakistan — tackles social and political issues through a pixie-faced alter ego

reaction to male births and female births. When a son is born, the father passes out cigars. When a daughter is born, a father simply passes out. "That was my first meaningful cartoon," Nazar said. either." ...

From ELECTA DRAPER, Denver Post,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Blondie,  UNICEF

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