I’m listening to This American Life, episode 77, Pray, from 2001.
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From the show:
Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other? We ask that question while visiting Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Pastor Ted Haggard at the New Life Church has put in place a project to pray in front of the home of every person in the city, systematically, block by block and house by house. He’s also helped organize a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year “prayer shield” over the city; all-night prayer vigils; and more.
From Act 1:
Alix Spiegel talked with a former member of Haggard’s church at a porn store who left the church because of his homosexuality.
“There seems to be more spiritual love than this environment where there is only physical love… I am really torn between what i was brought up with and what I’m doing now.”
“To you personally, and to anyone else, I would not turn Jesus away just because of what Christians do. Jesus isn’t the bad guy.”
