Author: Steve Rabey

They started writing and singing as teens. Decades later, Bill Gaither and John Michael Talbot are award-winning Christian music legends. Both are set to perform in Colorado Springs. Talbot, 62, helped create country rock before the Eagles took it easy. Following his conversion to Christianity, he became a pioneer in the emerging contemporary Christian music…

Gordon Klingenschmitt says God called him to run for public office and claims he is “the friendliest and funniest member” of the Colorado Legislature. But media organizations rank him among America’s “craziest” politicians and call him an embarrassment. While some Christians praise his outspoken defense of his principles, other believers wonder how someone who leads…

Twenty-five years ago, Focus on the Family backed Colorado’s Amendment 2, a divisive, anti-gay-rights measure. But last month, Jim Daly, president of the Colorado Springs-based organization, and gay activist Ted Trimpa celebrated their friendship and legislative collaboration at a conference in Denver called Q, which stands for questions. “Q gives Christians a place to talk…

Peter Yarrow had his epiphany in 1959 after the Cornell University senior became president of the student folk song club. “When students sang together with me, the music brought out something inside them and what emerged was extraordinarily sensitive, heartfelt and thoughtful,” he said in a recent interview. “A magical thing occurred.” Two years later,…

The first patient was Charlotte Figi, a girl who suffered hundreds of violent epileptic seizures every week. But after her mom, Paige Figi, gave her a few drops of dark oil extracted from marijuana plants four years ago, the seizures dramatically decreased. A few months later, Heather Jackson gave a dose of the oil to…

Martin Luther King Jr. announced his dream of racial equality to a quarter-million people participating in the 1963 March on Washington. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,”…

The future becomes the present every second and every year, and people who worry this transformation happens too quickly suffer from “future shock,” a condition Alvin Toffler first diagnosed half a century ago, describing it as the “shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too…