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Brady Boyd became the senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 2007 after serving six years as associate senior pastor and elder at the Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas. Elders at the church forced Boyd out last year after it became clear that he had misled his congregation about what he knew about Gateway Church founder Robert Morris' sexual abuse of a child.Apparently betting on Coloradans to forgive and/or forget, Boyd is launching services nearby.BackgroundCindy Clemishire came forward in 2024 accusing Morris of molesting her when she was a child.'I am qualified for ministry.'Morris initially downplayed his interactions with Clemishire as "inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady" that was limited to "kissing and petting." Clemishire contradicted Morris, suggesting that the pastor starting abusing her when she was 12 years old and continued doing so for roughly five years.Days after Clemishire's public accusation went viral, the church's elders announced that they had accepted Morris' resignation.In October, several months after his indictment on child sexual battery charges, Morris pleaded guilty to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.Boyd could not escape the fallout from Morris' sex abuse scandal.Boyd — who took over as senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 2007 after its former pastor, Ted Haggard, resigned over allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a male prostitute and abused methamphetamine — claimed until 2024 that he was unaware that Clemishire was 12 when Morris started molesting her, the Board of Elders of New Life Church said in a June 22, 2025, statement.RELATED: WATCH: Talarico self-owns when he warns fascism will 'be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross' Brady Boyd with former President George W. Bush in 2008. Craig F. Walker/Denver Post/Getty Images"We believe that to be inaccurate," continued the statement. "Brady also made statements in his public address to the congregation on June 8 that the Board of Elders knows to be inaccurate."On June 8, Boyd told members of his church that he had no previous knowledge of the allegations against Morris and portrayed himself as a victim of Morris' deception. Court documents suggest, however, that he had some idea of the claims against his associate by late August 2007.While acknowledging that "Brady had nothing at all to do with Robert Morris' past abuse," the elders claimed Boyd did mislead his flock."We believe that trust is the currency of leadership," wrote the Board of Elders. "When Brady recently told our congregation, inaccurately, that he was unaware of certain details regarding Morris’ past abuse, trust was broken, and we, the Board of Elders, asked Brady to resign."Boyd did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.New lifeWithin weeks of his resignation, Boyd launched a donation-collecting faith-themed organization called Psalm 68 Ministries, which he said in a July 22, 2025, post would "be operating under the authority of the elders of Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo, TX." Months later, he began a weekly sermon podcast.Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.Late last month, Boyd and his wife, Pam, announced in-person services in the same commercial area of northern Colorado Springs."We believe we are still called to pastor in Colorado Springs. We received this mandate 18 years ago, and the calling has only grown stronger," said the announcement. "After careful prayer and discussions with trusted counselors and friends, we feel led to start a Wednesday night church service in Colorado Springs that will focus on some simple, but powerful ideas. We’ll pray together, study the Scriptures together, share the Lord’s Table, and enjoy fellowship with each other."Boyd provided a reminder on March 11, writing, "In one week, we will gather and we cannot wait to see all of you at 6:30 at the Phil Long Music Hall."When asked whether the new services constitute church services, Boyd told ChurchLeaders, "We are going to worship, study the scriptures, receive communion, and pray. This is not a church plant."Responding to skepticism about whether he should continue in ministry, Boyd said, "Everyone in my trusted circle of pastors and advisers agrees wholeheartedly that I am qualified for ministry."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When the news broke that President Trump followed through on his promise to bar taxpayer-funded gender surgeries in federal prisons, the coverage quickly pivoted to one question: How will this affect transgender-identifying inmates?As a former inmate — I served five years at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla — I kept thinking about the people the headlines keep skipping: the women forced to endure confinement while male inmates encroach on their privacy.Women in prison deserve the dignity to heal without being sacrificed to an ideology.After I did my time, I re-entered civil society and founded a nonprofit to help women build sustainable lives after prison. Not long after I got out, women still inside California’s prison system began calling me with alarming reports: Administrators were moving men into women’s prisons.At first, I couldn’t believe it. No sane person should view placing males in a women’s prison as a “compassionate” policy. It only makes sense if you ignore what prison actually is — or if you want to impose a sinister ideology no matter who gets hurt.Some of these males claim a female identity because women’s prisons tend to be less violent than men’s prisons. In some cases, they don’t even claim to be women. They claim to be “nonbinary” and gain admission anyway. These men do not always come with minor offenses or nonviolent histories. Some are rapists. Some are child molesters. Some committed brutal, unthinkable crimes.For years, Bureau of Prisons policies on transgender health care moved forward with little acknowledgment of the harm they impose on incarcerated women. Women like me watched administrators apply sweeping ideological rules to an environment where the stakes involve physical safety, privacy, and survival.Under the approach that dominated the last several years, officials treated the feelings and demands of men as more important than the safety and dignity of the women forced to live beside them.Prison has never been, and never will be, a place for “one-size-fits-all” social experiments. Every decision inside a facility affects real human beings in extremely close quarters. Housing assignments, medical decisions, and institutional accommodations cannot follow slogans or pressure campaigns from outside groups. They must prioritize the safety and well-being of the people who live there.Anyone who has lived inside prison understands how this plays out on the ground. Women cannot leave their cells without permission. They cannot lock their own doors. They cannot choose their cellmates. They shower under supervision, change clothes in shared spaces, and sleep just feet away from strangers. Many entered prison after surviving domestic violence, sexual assault, or trafficking.Where is the compassion for those women — women trying to rehabilitate while they relive their trauma?The system has told them, again and again, that their trauma doesn’t matter, their fear doesn’t matter, and their right to privacy doesn’t matter. Instead, officials tell them to prioritize the identity claims of men. Give an inch and the activists will take a mile — especially when you put men with histories of violence against women and children into living arrangements that involve showers, sleeping quarters, and constant proximity.RELATED: Groomed for violence? The dark world of furries and transgenderism in America’s classrooms Blaze News IllustrationPresident Trump’s executive order barring taxpayer-funded gender surgeries in federal prisons signals a shift away from treating prisons like laboratories for social experimentation. The order supports women and supports safety.For incarcerated women, it means they no longer have to watch men receive treatments and accommodations designed to make them “feel like a woman,” while the women themselves lose basic standards of privacy and dignity the moment they enter custody.Incarcerated people deserve humane treatment. That includes access to medical care, mental health care, and dignity.But dignity cannot mean denying reality.If you’ve lived behind the walls, you know what the outside world often forgets: These policies shape the daily lives of thousands of women. Their chance at rehabilitation suffers when officials force them to live in fear, relive trauma, and navigate needless threats of real violence. Women in prison deserve the dignity to heal without being sacrificed to an ideology.

President Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding the release of all communications between Michael Cohen and New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office after Cohen claims he was “compelled and coerced” to testify against Trump.Cohen, Trump's former attorney who testified against the president twice, published an article on his Substack in mid-January titled "When Politics Blind Justice." In this piece, Cohen described how government lawyers made him the "key witness" in two cases against Trump.'In sum, the NYAG is blocking any discovery into, and possibly even preservation of, evidence of the "pressured and coerced" testimony that it used to convince the trial court to enter a wrongful judgment against Defendants.'"From the time I first began meeting with lawyers from the Manhattan DA's Office and the New York Attorney General's Office in connection with their investigations of President Trump, and through the trials themselves, I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government's desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump," Cohen wrote.He stated that prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office first approached him in 2019. At that time, Cohen was serving a three-year prison sentence, and he "wanted to do whatever" he could to return home to his family and resume his life. Cohen acknowledged that one of the first questions he posed to prosecutors was how he would benefit from cooperating with them.He was released in September 2020 and permitted to serve out the remainder of his sentence in home confinement."After my release, I continued to meet with prosecutors and hoped that, in exchange for my cooperation, my home confinement and later my supervised release sentence would be shortened," Cohen wrote. "During my time with prosecutors, both in preparation for and during the trials, it was clear they were interested only in testimony from me that would enable them to convict President Trump."He claimed that prosecutors asked "inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative." RELATED: Democratic lawmaker texted Epstein during hearing — appeared to use his tips to grill Trump’s ex-lawyer Alvin Bragg. Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesCohen described a similar experience with Attorney General Letitia James' civil case against Trump. "Letitia James made it publicly known during her 2018 campaign for attorney general that, if elected, she would go after President Trump," Cohen continued. "Her office made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was testimony that would help them do just that. Again, I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking."He accused James and Bragg of sharing "the same playbook" and sacrificing their credibility by blurring "the line between justice and politics.""You may reasonably ask why I am speaking out now. The answer is simple. I have witnessed firsthand the damage done when prosecutors pick their target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative," Cohen added.A mid-level appeals court in August threw out James' $454 million penalty against Trump, which grew to $500 million with interest. James appealed that decision in September. In Bragg's case, Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts in 2024. However, he received an unconditional discharge, meaning that while the convictions stand, he did not face any punishment. Trump has since filed an appeal to have those convictions removed from his record.RELATED: Trump felony conviction in doubt? President files appeal to clear his name Letitia James. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesOn Wednesday, Trump's attorneys sent a demand letter to James' office, requesting all records of communications with Cohen, the New York Post reported. It is unclear whether a similar request was made to Bragg's office.Trump's attorneys argued that Cohen's communications with James' prosecutors "would have been vital for Defendants to use in crossexamining" him during the trial, according to the news outlet. They claimed that her office "never produced any of the Cohen Records concerning its meetings with Cohen about President Trump and his businesses, despite Defendants' documented demands that the NYAG do so.""In emails and a meet-and-confer, the NYAG has taken the untenable position that (i) the NYAG 'doesn't know' whether such Cohen Records exist (i.e., it has no idea whether it has records of its communications with its key witness); (ii) the NYAG will not even take a short amount of time to determine whether it possesses any Cohen Records, apparently because, in the NYAG's mistaken view, discovery is over," Trump's attorneys wrote, the Post reported.They expressed concern that these records may be "automatically deleted and purged," as James has been "unwilling to take any steps to confirm whether such Cohen Records are being preserved.""In sum, the NYAG is blocking any discovery into, and possibly even preservation of, evidence of the 'pressured and coerced' testimony that it used to convince the trial court to enter a wrongful judgment against Defendants," Trump's lawyers added.James' and Bragg's offices did not respond to a request for comment.Like Blaze News? 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Friday morning, I listened to a Pentagon briefing about the Strait of Hormuz. A reporter pressed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for clarity. What exactly was happening? What would the outcome be? How would this end?General Dan Caine paused and offered a phrase that struck me immediately. He said the region was “a tactically complex environment.”In a tactically complex environment, certainty about outcomes is rarely available. Clarity about the mission remains essential.The military has a way of compressing enormous realities into a few calm words. Geography, enemy capability, shipping lanes, alliances, timing, logistics, unintended consequences. All of it folded into one sentence.“A tactically complex environment” was not the answer the press wanted.Reporters are trained to extract certainty, preferably in a sentence short enough to fit beneath a television chyron. A clean headline. A confident prediction. Something that sounds definitive before the next commercial break.But responsible leaders know something the press room often does not. In environments like that, certainty is rarely available. Mission clarity is.The Navy does not control the currents in the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot control every ship moving through that narrow passage or every decision made in Tehran. What it can control is the mission. Protect shipping. Maintain security. Avoid escalation when possible. Respond when necessary.Clarity of mission matters more than clarity of outcome.Listening to that exchange, I thought about how often life itself unfolds inside tactically complex environments.A late-night conversation with a doctor where the scans are clear but the future is not.A family meeting where emotions, responsibilities, and competing opinions collide in ways no one quite knows how to resolve.A business decision where every option carries consequences that may not become visible for months or even years.RELATED: After Rush Limbaugh, conservatives stopped listening together Photo by John Medina/WireImageIn moments like those, people instinctively search for certainty. We want someone to tell us exactly how things will turn out.But history has never offered that luxury.During COVID, nearly every commercial began with the same solemn line: “During these uncertain times.”I remember thinking, when exactly were times certain?Wars have always been uncertain. Medicine has always involved risk. Markets rise and fall. Families face crises. The human story has never been a tidy script where outcomes are guaranteed.Yet we keep demanding certainty anyway.We demand it from generals.We demand it from doctors.We demand it from politicians.And, if we are honest, we often demand it from God.The Bible records that struggle with remarkable honesty. The Psalms repeatedly ask the same aching question: “How long, O Lord?”Not from skeptics, but from believers. From men who trusted God and still found themselves standing in the middle of circumstances they could not fully understand.Scripture does not hide that tension. It reveals it.Faith does not remove complexity. It teaches us how to live within it.The Bible does offer assurance about the final outcome of God’s purposes. But it rarely provides advance clarity about how today’s circumstances will unfold. The pain, confusion, and pressure of the present moment are not automatically lifted.What Scripture does provide, again and again, is clarity about calling.Love the Lord your God. Love your neighbor. Do justice. Walk humbly. Be faithful.Those instructions remain clear even when circumstances are not.Perhaps that is why General Caine’s phrase lingered with me.“A tactically complex environment.”Recognizing that reality does not solve every problem. But it does something important. It resets our expectations and reminds us that life is rarely as simple as the people shouting from the sidelines insist. Once that becomes clear, the insistence on certainty begins to fade.Instead of demanding guarantees no one can provide, we begin asking the question that actually guides wise decisions.What is the mission?In a tactically complex environment, certainty about outcomes is rarely available. Clarity about the mission remains essential.