Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Balanced Assessment of Haggard Scandal
With everybody blogging on the Haggard scandal, I have generally kept out of the discussion. However, I think Rick Phillips' post on the Reformation21 blog today is a wonderfully balanced assessment: "Just Like Ted Haggard?" Here is his introduction:
It seems to me that the blogosphere reaction to the Ted Haggard scandal is breaking two ways. On one side are those who utterly denounce the man and see in him a glaring example of everything wrong in popular evangelicalism today. On the other side are those who want to stress that we are all rotten sinners "just like Ted Haggard" and that the only evangelical response is to mourn over one's own sin. As usual, there is something good and something troubling about both positions.
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Also see this valuable perspective by Gordon MacDonald:
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2006/11/the_haggard_tru.html
It has been interesting to see how strong and sometimes ugly the response has been.
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