Home, Sweet Home
They are drawn as if by magnetic forces; they speak of Colorado Springs, home to the greatest concentration of fundamentalist Christian activist groups in American history, both as a last stand and as a kind of utopia in the making.
This is how an article called Soldiers for Christ (part 1) begins in Harpers. For anyone who asks why I laugh about the uber-conservative right here, doesn’t that say it all? I’m still reading the rest of the article, and chances are that I’ll groan at parts and roll my eyes at other parts. As someone who’s visited New Life Church before, I should actually be able to get a general idea of whether this article is accurate at all.
I came across this from another blog’s link to Soldiers for Christ (part 2)…which I just couldn’t stomach to finish reading.
Posted by Allison in spirituality & religion, culture |
August 15th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
This is interesting. When Ted Haggard (New Life) moved to CS in the mid-eighties, it was actually known as a graveyard of churches. More churches closed there each year than opened. There were also more Wiccan and open Witching groups than any other cities in America. Obviously something changed.