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Former Charismatic church leader Ted Haggard attended a documentary-style play this week that featured, well, him, more or less.

Developed in the summer of 2007, “This Beautiful City” depicts the rise of a small city in Colorado into a national powerhouse of evangelical Christianity and features, among other topics, scandals like those involving Haggard – whose cash-for-sex relationship with a male prostitute became public in 2006 and led to his resignation and removal from all leadership positions.

“It was surreal, watching Ted Haggard watch the show,” said Jen Garvey-Blackwell, executive director of New York’s Vineyard Theatre, according to Time Out New York. more >>

NEW YORK (AP) - When Mike Stevens learned his lungs were riddled with cancer, it took only a week to start chemotherapy - but six weeks to find out if it was doing any good. "You're going through all this suffering and stuff and you want to know, am I going to survive? Is this stuff working?" said Stevens, 48, of La Jolla, Calif. "Your whole life is in sort of a limbo."

Doctors typically must wait weeks or months to see if a treatment is shrinking tumors or at least halting their growth. But researchers are exploring a new use for medical imaging that could shorten the stay in purgatory, possibly revealing within a few days whether chemo is working.

That speed could save both lives and money. It would allow doctors to switch more quickly from an ineffective drug to a different one, and save health care dollars by waving doctors off expensive but futile treatments. more >>

Some of America’s largest volunteer-promoting organizations met in New York City on Friday to collaborate on how they can together respond to the economic crisis facing the nation today.

“We each have different strengths, different areas of expertise, and our roles should be complimentary, not competitive,” Carl A. Anderson, the chief executive officer of the Knights of Columbus, told over 175 representatives from around 110 groups.

“Our communities need the service each of us provides, and we need other to effectively help our neighbors in this crisis,” he added in the closing remarks of the one-day summit sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and Fairfield University's Center for Faith and Public Life. more >>

NEW YORK – So we're going away on weekends and sticking close to home.

But are we taking a cruise? Traveling with the girls? Vacationing with the kids?

Here's how the economy is changing the way we travel. more >>

Orthodox Christians in America must affirm their identity if they are to have a strong future amid a secularizing reality in the United States, a Greek Orthodox scholar said.

Orthodox Christians have "a message and a way of life" that they must present as "an alternative to the morally and spiritually down-spiraling contemporary American lifestyle," said Rev. Stanley Harakas, Archbishop Iakovos Professor of Orthodox Theology Emeritus at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

Harakas, a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, made the comments last week during a keynote address at the "Sixth Annual Orthodoxy in America Lecture" at Fordham University in New York City. more >>