From the Colorado Independent:
More than 20 police officers raided the landmark Grace Church and St. Stephen’s in downtown Colorado Springs on Wednesday, marking the latest in the ongoing criminal investigation into whether the controversial Rev. Don Armstrong embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that police raided Grace Church and St. Stephen’s Wednesday morning as part of the ongoing criminal investigation and seized financial records and computers.
The development is the latest in a complex story involving Armstrong and his followers who split form[sic] the Episcopal Church and joined the Episcopalian[sic] Diocese of Nigeria, whose archbishop once supported a law imposing five-year prison terms for gays and their supporters. Since then, Armstrong and his faction have kept physical possession of the historic and architecturally inspiring Grace Church and St. Stephen’s. The Episcopal Church of Colorado wants it back.
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Read on about the Rev. Armstrong, who dodged a banana cream pie thrown at him and apparently parked illegally to buy a frappucino. As the reporter says, "Things have recently gotten a bit kooky."
Thanks to Lapin.
Oh, yes, the pie thing is not nearly as recent as this writer makes out. As I remember it wasn't too long after the vote to leave.
ReplyDeleteSusan, the pie incident was from a while back. I'm sure that to folks looking in from the outside, it looks a bit kooky.
ReplyDeleteOMG! To think I was once approached (with great earnest) by their Search Committee....
ReplyDeleteThere but by the grace of the Lord ...
RR, does it follow that you would have made off with $400,000? On the other hand, the parishioners may have dragged you kicking and screaming into the Diocese of Nigeria.
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