Gordon McDonald has posted the best article I have read on the sad Ted Haggard situation. McDonald, who went through a similar experience in the 80s, writes with truth and compassion about Haggard, his family and his church. The thing that is missing, though, is any real idea about how things could have been different, how someone in Haggard’s shoes could have found someone to pull him back when this stuff was in the temptation stage - a very important point, I think.

Also, Arthur E. Farnsley has an unusual article on (and this is difficult to describe) Bible literalists who work flea markets instead of going to church, who don’t actually READ the Bible, and who aren’t part of the religious right! The article sheds light on how influential the evangelical subculture is to those who are part of it. Not only that, but I KNOW people like this, folks who are loosely associated with our church, who aren’t flea-marketers but have other concerns.