Another New Life Pastor is Gone

Christopher Beard, who led New Life Church's twentyfourseven leadership program, resigned Friday under a cloud of sexual impropriety. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that he's the second New Life pastor to fall from grace over there -- the first being its senior pastor, the Rev. Ted Haggard.

Beard's situation is a little different, of course. Though officials at New Life aren't saying much about what Beard did with whom -- an attempt, they say, to protect the "other" involved -- they are saying that it was a one-time encounter that happened several years before he was married. Haggard's alleged relationship, of course, lasted three years (according to his accuser), and all the while he was a husband and father.

Still, it's a tough week for this scandal-weary congregation.