
Constantine's Sword
it told me who I was.
My connection to Jesus,
the cross a sign of mercy.
I saw crosses everywhere
when I was a kid.
I saw telephone poles as crosses.
I looked up in the sky and
I saw airplanes as crosses.
The cross was...
central..
to the way I saw the world.
It was like a sighting device
And then it changed.
I began to see that this cross...
throws a shadow.
I used to be a Roman
Catholic priest.
That was a long time ago.
Now I am married and
father of two grown kids.
And I make my living
as a writer and journalist.
I cover a lot of stories...
but there is one that haunts me.
Probably because
it hits so close to home.
doing in the name of God.
I went to Colorado Springs
now a scene of controversy over one
of the biggest religious revivals...
in our country.
It is also the home of the United
States Air Force academy.
A destination I'd once envision
Being here makes me remember of how
very much I wanted to be in this world.
This world of the air force.
There were always two
parts of me as a kid.
I mean I was a religious boy...
and I was tapped for the priesthood
as a kid.
There was a way in which that was
powerful but the other thing
was the love of the air force.
I once wanted to be in
that dormitory as a kid.
And I would have become
an air force officer...
and my story with my dad would
have been very different.
Dad started out in the slaughterhouses
in the Chicago stockyards.
He met my mother...
a telephone operator who had quit
school after 8th grade...
to support her family.
He made his way down
to night school in the loop...
he went into the FBI.
As a young FBI agent in Chicago, he
captured a notorious gangland criminal...
named Roger "The Terrible" Touhy.
It was such a triumph
for the bureau...
that my dad was brought
into J. Edgar Hoover's inner circle.
In 1947, when the air force
was established...
Dad was picked to set up
its first counter intelligence agency.
A guy who had done
his traveling by train.
I'm not sure if he had ever been
on an airplane at that point.
Now he is an Air Force general.
I am here now...
because I heard that members
of the faculty and administration
along with some of the Evangelicals
Churches in the area...
are on a mission to convert cadets.
In my dad's air force,
that would have been a non-starter.
Things are different now.
It's a quick ride down the
road from the academy...
to pastor Ted Haggard's
New Life Mega church.
I went to see him
there a year ago.
We started a little over 20 years ago
in the basement of our home.
We started with twenty people...
in a concrete basement...
I'd put my bible on them.
Everybody had to bring
their own folding chairs.
So it was a kind of a cute scene.
Now we have 14,000 people that
call New Life their home church...
and on an average Sunday we have
right around 10.000 people...
that come and worship with us.
# Wonderful?
# Beautiful?
# Glorious?
Evangelicalism is growing
and developing.
There is a new mega church...
a mega church being 2000 people
in attendance or more.
There is a new mega-church
and they are all Evangelical.
# We bow before you in
all of your wonders?
We believe that the bible is the
word of God, Jesus is the son of God...
and that you must be born again.
The National Association
of Evangelicals...
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