Rev. Ted Haggard's Market Driven Marriage

The May 2005 issue of Harper's featured a very disturbing feature about the Rev. Ted Haggard, or 'Pastor Ted' as he is affectionately and informally named by his congregation. Haggard is the pastor of the 12,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and the current president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Among the disturbing features in the article was this observation by the author, Jeff Sharlet: 'One of Pastor Ted's favorite books is Thomas Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree, which is now required reading for the hundreds of pastors under Ted's spiritual authority across the country. From Friedman, Pastor Ted says he learned that everything, including spirituality, can be understood as a commodity.' [Read more about The Market-Driven Marriage]"

(Via Mars Hill.)