Word: megachurch
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Even before two of its teenage congregants were shot near their car on Sunday, New Life Church in Colorado Springs had been dealing with a legacy of trauma. At the end of 2006, the megachurch had suffered through a sex scandal after its founder Ted Haggard admitted to a relationship with a male escort. Church membership plummeted from 14,000 to 10,000. Now, with a new pastor on board only since August, the church is once again in the national spotlight, this time as part of a shocking two-episode multiple murder. At a press conference today, the church...
Bell, 37, is guilty of none of the negatives. He is largely apolitical, thinks that only those with gay friends are positioned to judge homosexuality--and he tinkers marvelously. At 28, he founded a megachurch that threw out the conventional sermon-and-worship service and instantly drew thousands of attendees. He has sold hundreds of thousands of books with titles like Velvet Elvis and Sex God that find the sacred in the profane. And he has created a form of video message he calls Nooma (phonetic Greek for spirit or breath) that may make him to YouTube what Graham...
...Letterman. ("The birth of irony," he jokes. "The Betamax was a portal to another world.") Next came rock. As a student at Wheaton, he fronted a band that seemed poised to break nationally. When it didn't, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and apprenticed at a megachurch before founding Mars Hill just outside Grand Rapids. The town is notoriously well churched, but Bell saw an untapped audience: some were his music fans, others Christians left cold by traditional services. "A hundred people a day were calling and saying, 'Dude! Give us the real thing.' I was like...
...surprised if [Huckabee] showed up inpictures with a lot of other people in our magazine." But the possible cost is summed up nicely by Frank Lockwood, religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, who recently observed Huckabee visit two churches in Irving, Texas: one a non-Prosperity Baptist megachurch and the other a prosperity church. "I think he's been flying under the radar a little bit." he says." A CBS poll of white evangelicals in October showed that 57% said that they didn't know enough about him to answer a question of whether he had strong religious beliefs...
Barack Obama is in the midst of a "40 Days of Faith and Family" campaign in South Carolina after completing a "faith tour" of Iowa. Obama spent a recent Sunday at a Greenville megachurch telling the story of how "I accepted Jesus Christ in my life." The sweeping effort could help Obama among the Palmetto State's black citizens, who make up half the Democratic vote in the state's early primary and are overwhelmingly religious. But his targeting of white Evangelicals suggests Obama is casting a wider net. If he deprives Clinton of the nomination (a huge...