Focus on the Family moved to Colorado Springs in 1992, and soon, megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who helped to radicalize the town, would come to head the National Association of Evangelicals.

My family moved to the Springs in 1993. Our milieu adored the nearby Air Force Academy. https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/1348136129589956608

We moved there to join a church plant under the Missionary Church umbrella. My dad was the music pastor. Community Church in the Rockies met at Rampart High School, and a then high-ranking Focus executive, Kurt Leander, was a prominent member.

The senior pastor, Ron Clarkson, became quite authoritarian with his subordinates. So my dad and the youth pastor, Marty Longcor, moved back to Indiana, where both were from, to start a new church plant, where Marty was senior pastor.

That plant failed to become self-sustaining before losing its funding, and we stopped being friends with the Longcors. But anyway, that two-and-half years in Colorado Springs, when it was transforming into a dominionist evangelical dystopia, left an impression.