Former Episcopalians and other conservative Anglicans who are holding a big organizing meeting in Tarrant County this June have snagged a high-profile speaker - the Rev. Rick Warren. Click here for a press release about the meeting, including information about...
Sarah Pulliam of Christianity Today has done an interesting Q&A with Rick Warren, of Saddleback Church and "Purpose-Driven Life" fame....
Shayne Lee, a Tulane University sociologist, has followed up his book on Bishop T.D. Jakes by co-writing a book called "Holy Mavericks," and it looks at the ministries of Jakes, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Paula White and Brian McLaren....
It's hardly the rosiest time to be launching a new magazine. Print advertising is down, as is print readership. Many publications are cutting staff and pages to stay afloat. The sorry state of the economy has driven ad budgets into...
Here's a profile of Rick Warren, from Reader's Digest. Thanks to Larry Ross of A. Larry Ross Communications for passing this along, via Twitter. Photo: AP...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "Warren's prayer rocked." -- "easye" "Compared to the inspirational Joseph Lowery, Rick Warren just washed out." -- "Informed Citizen" "How backwards is a country that still believes in prayer? Why not just get...
Martin Davis had devoted his latest Faith and Fumbles column to the prayer delivered at the presidential inauguration by the Rev. Rick Warren....
So Rick Warren's inauguration invocation has come and gone. What was it like? I'd say: Emotional and inclusive, asking God for a broad set of blessings for a wide range of tasks for the new administration. He quotes the Torah...
If you're keeping score, and we know you are, you know that Barack Obama has raised some eyebrows in his choices of preachers to pray at some of the inauguration ceremonies. First up: Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the...
William Lawrence, dean of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology and a professor of American church history, writes that long before Jeremiah Wright and Rick Warren entered the spotlight surrounding Barack Obama, preachers have been causing political difficulties for...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "I don't think his [Barack Obama's] selection of [Rick] Warren reflects his 'theology' but more the kind of presidency he hope to bring to the American people -- one where people of different...
The "Purpose-Driven Life" pastor, invited to give a prayer at Barack Obama's inauguration as president, reportedly has offered to assist conservative California congegations that have left the Episcopal Church. Click here for a story from Episcopal News Service....
By picking Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, Barack Obama pretty well guaranteed that both men would draw heat from their respective poltiical opponents, says conservative commentator David Aikman. "Gays on the left of the spectrum hate...
In what appears to be Barack Obama's attempt to cover the widest possible theological spectrum in the various prayer opportunities during his inauguration festivities: TNew Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, an outspoken, international gay rights leader, has been asked to...
In a move that drew scant attention -- unlike the selection of Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation -- Barack Obama has chosed Sharon Watkins, head of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), to deliver the sermon at a...
I'm predicting: Not. But they are making a federal case of it, and have a day in court scheduled. How do they feel about that? From my e-box: (Washington, DC, January 6, 2009) Shortly before the close of business yesterday,...
In his latest "Sightings," Martin Marty takes some quotes from Obama on the role of religion in making public policy decisions. And then adds a quote from Saddleback's Rick Warren on the same topic. Here's a nugget of Marty's analysis...
Associated Baptist Press has a story with comments by the Rev. Rick Warren on the controversy surrounding his role in presidential inauguration. Warren has some observations about the media's role in this, as well. Keep reading:...
Seems to me that right now we have about eleventy-billion more important things to worry about as a nation than whether Rick Warren invokes the name of Jesus in his inaugural invocation. But apparently, for some, it cracks the list....
Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas, was on "Fox and Friends" Monday, arguing in support of Barack Obama's decision to have the Rev. Rick Warren give a prayer at the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration. Click here for the...
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