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...college and launched a career as a pharmacist, volunteering at her church, a hospital library and a pregnancy crisis center in her spare time. "But there was just an emptiness inside that doing the volunteer work and the pharmacy work didn't fill in me," she says. When a pastor again suggested sisterhood, Schreifels reconsidered. In 2003 she joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato, Minn., who do not mandate a habit or discourage her from continuing to work as a pharmacist for Target. Schreifels gave up her Subaru Forester and apartment and moved into a house with...
...bought methamphetamine; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Escort Michael Jones told a Denver radio station that he had had a three-year relationship with Haggard--who last year was named one of America's 25 most influential Evangelicals by TIME--saying he wanted to expose the "hypocrisy" of the pastor, who has led the battle against gay marriage in Colorado. Haggard first claimed he did not know Jones. Then he admitted buying a massage and methamphetamine from him, but said he did not take the drugs. He staunchly denied he had had sex with Jones--who in turn denied selling...
...male prostitute for sex and drugs; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Escort Michael Jones told a Denver radio station that he had a three-year relationship with Haggard-whom Time named one of America's 25 most influential Evangelicals last year-saying he wanted to expose the "hypocrisy" of the pastor, who has led the battle against gay marriage in Colorado. Haggard first denied knowing Jones. Then he admitted buying a massage and methamphetamine from him, but said he did not take the drugs. He staunchly denied having sex with Jones-who in turn denied selling the pastor drugs-and insisted...
...have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver," Ted Haggard said with a calm specificity during an interview with a Denver TV reporter on Wednesday night as controversy broke around him. "I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife." Nevertheless, the pastor of one of the most prominent mega-churches in the country ? and one of President George W. Bush's advisors on evangelical issues ? has agreed to resign from his own 14,000-member New Life Church and temporarily resigned as president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, which represents more...
...Four senior pastors who do not belong to the New Life Church have been investigating the allegations by Jones. Haggard has said they have the authority to discipline him, fire him or exonerate him of the charges. Earlier in the week, an attorney for the New Life Church said that Haggard's stepping aside was purely pro forma and not an admission of wrongdoing until the investigation was concluded. But even before the investigative board reportedly formally recommended removal, Dr. Joel Hunter, pastor of the 12,000-member Northland Church in Orlando, told TIME that Haggard's resignation was permanent...