Agreed. "We'll tell you what to think" seems to be the operative principle behind most religions. We've been attending the local Unitarian Universalist church, which is different. They give you things to think about. :) Also GLBT and Poly friendly.
Apparently he's from here too.. Muncie Star press article clip follows
Yorktown ties Haggard moved with his parents and siblings in 1969 from Delphi, in western Indiana, to the Yorktown area, where his father operated a veterinary clinic (still in operation under different owners) at Kilgore Avenue and Nebo Road.
Ted Haggard graduated from Yorktown High School in 1974.
His father, J. Marcus Haggard, was featured in one of the episodes of the Middletown series, aired on PBS in 1982, that updated sociological studies of Muncie conducted decades earlier.
The episode -- titled Community of Praise -- touched not on J. Marcus Haggard's work as a veterinarian (his son's Web site also reports he was a creator of Gaines Burgers), but on his ministry, through his founding of the local Church of the Branches and reported faith healing.
In one scene, the elder Haggard is shown attempting to cure a teenager of scoliosis through prayer.
J. Marcus Haggard died at age 58 of a heart attack during a trip to New York City not long after the Middletown series aired in 1982.
Newspaper accounts indicate his son, Ted -- by then a minister in Baton Rouge, La. -- returned to Yorktown to preside over his father's funeral. (The evangelist's Web site reports his career as a minister began at Yorktown Baptist Church.)
The Haggard family was in the news again in 1987, when the evangelist's brother, Timothy, at the time an Albany pharmacist, was convicted of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack on his estranged wife in the couple's northwest Muncie home.
Timothy Haggard, 31 at the time of his conviction, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by then-Delaware Circuit Court Judge Steven Caldemeyer. In 1995, however, Caldemeyer agreed to suspend the remainder of the sentence.
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Date: 2006-11-06 06:15 pm (UTC)Apparently he's from here too..
Muncie Star press article clip follows
Yorktown ties
Haggard moved with his parents and siblings in 1969 from Delphi, in western Indiana, to the Yorktown area, where his father operated a veterinary clinic (still in operation under different owners) at Kilgore Avenue and Nebo Road.
Ted Haggard graduated from Yorktown High School in 1974.
His father, J. Marcus Haggard, was featured in one of the episodes of the Middletown series, aired on PBS in 1982, that updated sociological studies of Muncie conducted decades earlier.
The episode -- titled Community of Praise -- touched not on J. Marcus Haggard's work as a veterinarian (his son's Web site also reports he was a creator of Gaines Burgers), but on his ministry, through his founding of the local Church of the Branches and reported faith healing.
In one scene, the elder Haggard is shown attempting to cure a teenager of scoliosis through prayer.
J. Marcus Haggard died at age 58 of a heart attack during a trip to New York City not long after the Middletown series aired in 1982.
Newspaper accounts indicate his son, Ted -- by then a minister in Baton Rouge, La. -- returned to Yorktown to preside over his father's funeral. (The evangelist's Web site reports his career as a minister began at Yorktown Baptist Church.)
The Haggard family was in the news again in 1987, when the evangelist's brother, Timothy, at the time an Albany pharmacist, was convicted of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack on his estranged wife in the couple's northwest Muncie home.
Timothy Haggard, 31 at the time of his conviction, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by then-Delaware Circuit Court Judge Steven Caldemeyer. In 1995, however, Caldemeyer agreed to suspend the remainder of the sentence.