In 1990, Murray was registered as a home-schooled child with the Cherry Creek School District, said district spokeswoman Tustin Amole. He later took the Iowa test, a standard test given to third-graders nationwide at the time, said Amole. That is the last record that the district has on him.
Murray’s later school history indicates a young [...]

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been shutting down our operations and preparing our final financial statements. As our subscribers will soon discover, we’ve made arrangements with Maclean’s magazine to fulfill part of our outstanding obligations to our readers — every Western Standard subscriber will get six free issues of Maclean’s. That’s six more Mark [...]

The Denver Post has complied a list of violent acts in US churches since 1991.
During 1991 and 1999 there were three incidents, a robbery with violence, a hostage taking at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado (not a church) and a shooting/suicide in Texas that left 8 dead and seven wounded.
Since 2000:
AUG. 12, 2007 —A [...]

Congratulations to nakedpastor and Today at the Mission, recepients of 2007 Millennia Foundation awards.  Blog on!
 

Shortly after 1 pm Colorado time a gunman opened fire at New Life Church, (a none denominational mega church founded by Ted Haggard) New Life Church has about 10 thousand members.  The church has cancelled the remainder of it’s events today and will be closed tomorrow.
Colorado City police aren’t confirming whether the New Life Church gunman is [...]

A man with a gun walked into a Youth with a Mission training centre in Denver Colorado and opened fire.
2 people are dead, two are wounded. The man escaped. He is described as a white male in his early 20’s. The shooting took place at Faith Bible Chapel Campus.
The centre is located just outside Denver [...]

Fox Entertainment Group buys Beliefnet (is it just me or does an entertainment group buying an independent faith website sound silly?)
Pat Robertson steps down at CBN (just as CEO, not off the 700 Club, and yes, his son Gordon is now the boss. Nepotism in religious media is a norm)

I’m back. Sort of, still a bit sleep deprived and fuzzy, it feels like I spent more time on trains than I did on the ground.:^)
It was interesting to be in one of the largest cities in North America and to be  unconnected. I don’t own a cell phone, a blackberry, mp3 player or a laptop; only accessed [...]