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Ted Haggard: the return journey

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William Crawley | 23:34 UK time, Monday, 1 February 2010

ted_haggard1257421024.jpgRemember Ted Haggard? The one-time leader of America's National Association of Evangelicals became a household name in 2006 when he was exposed as a hypocrite -- a preacher who opposed homosexuality in public while soliciting the services of. He resigned from the leadership of the church he founded, and many thought that would be the end of his public role within evangelical Christianity. Last September, I wrote about the HBO television documentary, , and suggested that he was fighting his way back into bosom of evangelicalism. That fight back continues. This month, his wife Gayle publishes a book explaining why she stayed with he disgraced husband (inevitably, it's titled "Why I Stayed"), and is accepting invitations to speak in churches. Take a look at this: an audience with Ted and Gayle Haggard at the increasingly influential , which could just as easily have been entitled Ted Haggard: The Rehabilitation Event.

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