Nothing fails like prayer.

The team appointed to oversee Ted Haggard's "spiritual restoration" after scandal forced him to end his ministry at New Life Church has agreed to his request to end their oversite of his recovery program.

New Life Church issued a statement Tuesday saying it believes the termination of the relationship is premature, but would not say why. Earlier in the process, church leaders had said they assumed that Haggard's recovery could take several years.

The Colorado Springs evangelical congregation that Haggard founded also said it remains convinced that he should not return to any church ministry.

A year ago, Haggard voluntarily entered into an arrangement with a team of "overseers" to guide what it called his "spiritual restoration" following a scandal that rocked the 14,000-member church community over Haggard's admitted "sexual immorality."

While Haggard never specified, a Denver man accused him of engaging in sex with him.

Haggard is now living in Phoenix and will remain as a member of Phoenix First Assembly of God. There, Pastor Tommy Barnett will maintain what New Life called an "accountability relationship." Barnett had been one of the overseers.

"New Life Church recognizes the process of restoring Ted Haggard is incomplete and maintains its original stance that he should not return to vocational ministry," the church said in a statement.

I need to make more of these types on the blog; they have a bad habit of going underground and being forgotten. I didn't realize "who he was" until I saw "Jesus Camp" and by that point he'd already been exposed.

My late night polemic before bed:

Entrails. Strangled. Every last one of them. Every single lying, "cover up"-ing, dress wearing, fur coat and lovenest-financing, televangelical jet owning, kiddie raping, wetsuit DildoPlusGood user.

If you don't understand that every single bit of that last moment of over the top rhetoric is grounded in cold, hard fact (and police rap sheets), you need to pray harder.