parade wave <\/a>(“elbow elbow wrist wrist”).<\/p>\nReally, he is Colorado’s gift to religious journalism. What will he do next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You can’t keep a good drama queen down. Ted Haggard, the disgraced pastor of the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs, whom you might of thought would never occupy a pulpit again, but rather skulk around Phoenix, Arizona, peddling life insurance, is ba-a-a-ack. 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Some even offered to arrange a grand feast.Hat tip to Steve Bodio. And, no,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":385,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=385","url_meta":{"origin":1222,"position":4},"title":"Pagan with a Small ‘p’","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Pueblo, Colorado, is a perplexing city. As Pueblo Chieftain columnist Chuck Green wrote in today's paper, it \"suffers from a traditional inferiority complex, looking like a haggard woman when a little bit of care could reveal an attractive lady. 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