Author: Electa Draper

What is church life like these days for Americans, the religious research division of Barna Group recently asked.”Millions of active participants find their church experiences to be lacking,” Barna Group President David Kinnaman said in a report released Monday.Young adults and Catholics are among those experiencing a striking disaffection with church, researchers found.Faith leaders can’t…

Conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family announced Friday it is eliminating 49 jobs in the latest of several rounds of layoffs in response to ongoing economic pressures. The family-counseling center in Colorado Springs had a $105 million budget this fiscal year ending Sept. 30, but officials project it will receive donations of only $90…

A Christian dating site picked Denver among its top five cities for meeting like-minded faithful. ChristianMingle.com says there is no better place to meet Christian singles who like an active lifestyle than Denver. Its top picks, in order, are Atlanta, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fla., Denver and Houston. Christian Mingle Editor Jess Maltby said there was some…

The end is near. By the end of the week, people will quit talking about the billboards proclaiming: “Judgment Day May 21.” The billboards come with a biblical guarantee. But one way or the other, the suspense is almost over. The doomsday ad campaign, on billboards and at bus stops coast to coast, is courtesy…

Focus on the Family president Jim Daly on Friday said he will bridge a great divide by asking abortion-rights advocates to work with his conservative Christian ministry to make abortion less common.Reproductive-rights supporters say they want abortion to be legal, safe and rare, Daly said, and so his Colorado Springs-based media powerhouse will try to…

More than 50 religious leaders across the U.S. have signed an open letter to Congress calling for national “soul-searching” and an end to rancorous political rhetoric in the wake of Saturday’s deadly shooting in Tucson. The interfaith call for civility, spurred by the shooting spree at a Safeway market parking lot that killed six and…

BROOMFIELD — The resurgence of the bed-hopping bloodsuckers might be more of a runaway train than a gravy train for exterminators, a leading bedbug expert told pest controllers Wednesday. The boom in bedbugs in the past three to five years has to be good for somebody, doesn’t it? “Be careful what you wish for,” University…

Sponsors of Amendment 62, which seeks to give constitutional rights to every human being at the beginning of his or her biological development, sued the Colorado Legislative Council on Tuesday afternoon to stop distribution of its 2010 State Ballot Information Booklet. At a news conference Tuesday outside the Denver District Courthouse, amendment proponents said the…

Members of Colorado Springs Fellowship say federal prosecutors have wrongly involved their church in a case in which the pastor’s son and other congregants stand accused of defrauding dozens of Colorado employment companies of millions of dollars. The pastor and congregants have questioned whether the case was motivated by religious bigotry and racial prejudice. However,…