Rick Warren

Rick Warren's Economic Principles

Morgan Guyton | Posted 04.30.2012

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How can it possibly be right for the government to take what I've earned and give it to someone else? Here's the problem: it's totally Biblical.

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Saving The Next Trayvon: The Church's Chance To Uproot The Curse?

Dr. Faheem Younus | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Equality, Mayor Bloomberg, Trayvon Martin, Billy Graham, Racism, Christianity, Rick Warren, Scripture Commentary, Race in America, Black Church, Religion News

Half a century ago, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed, "The most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o'clock on Sunday morning?" Talk to your black friends. They still feel the curse.

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'Seriously?' An Open Letter to the 'Purpose Driven' Pastor

Rev. Susan Russell | Posted 04.16.2012

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On Easter Sunday, ABC's "This Week" featured Jake Tapper's interview with "purpose driven" [sic] pastor Rick Warren -- covering issues of faith, politics and economics.

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Rick Warren's Dependency

Mike Lux | Posted 04.10.2012

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Pastor Warren, you have every right to have whatever religious and political beliefs you want to have, but don't proclaim you are preaching the Christian Bible and then reject most of the things the people you are supposedly following said.

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New Lessons to Learn From the Ancient Mediterranean Diet

Brooke Holmes | Posted 04.25.2012

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The moralization of obesity is all too familiar these days. As America has gotten heavier, blame has become something of a national sport. Yet the ancient roots of Rick Warren's diet are a reminder that the association between health and morality is nothing new.

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Pastor Rick Warren Finds A New Purpose: Weight Loss

Posted 02.07.2012

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By Lilly Fowler Religion News Service LAKE FOREST, Calif. (RNS) Megachurch pastor Rick Warren has become an outsized evangelical superstar: best-s...

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Deciding What's 'Unreasonable' For LGBT Americans To Criticize

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Media Criticism, Prop 8, Barack Obama, Gay Issues, Rick Warren, Gay Rights, Gay Voices News

I wonder if Chait would think it "unreasonable" for black pundits to be disillusioned with a white president inviting a supporter of Jim Crow laws to speak at the inauguration. So why is pandering to homophobia still treated as something we should accept?

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The Failure Of The Megachurch

Tim Suttle | Posted 11.13.2011

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If the church is the body of Christ, then the mega-church is a body on steroids... For a church to become that abnormally large it has to make use of such artificial means that it actually ceases to be a healthy church model.

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Why Are Evangelicals Losing Influence?

Tim Suttle | Posted 08.29.2011

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Kindness, generosity, peacefulness, hospitality, patience, self-control -- these are radical virtues that should define evangelicals. Instead, we are largely defined by what we are against.

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'Chrislam' Comments Force Christian Broadcaster Off-Air

Posted 08.20.2011

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By Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Jack Van Impe, a popular End Times broadcaster, has ended his decades-long run on Trinity B...

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Finding Purpose in Small Business Week

Nelson Davis | Posted 07.26.2011

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Your purpose not only helps define what you do, it also helps you separate the wheat from the chaff. Decide what really counts and do that as much as you can.

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Statements From Muslim, Jewish And Christian Denominations

Posted 07.02.2011

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Many religious groups have issued statements in the wake of President Obama's announcement late Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed. We ...

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Religious Leaders Who Know How to Tweet

Posted 05.25.2011

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Need some new blood in your twitter feed? Want to add a dose of wisdom or a bit of zen to your daily reading habits? HuffPost Religion has put toget...

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A Note To The Pope: Thanks, But I Do Have Meaning In Life

G. Elijah Dann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether we can have meaning and purpose in life really isn't a religious/secular debate. All reflective people can find important and meanings and purposes.

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God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011

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You might think that if someone is powerful enough, say ... omnipotent, then anger would be unnecessary. And yet it makes a lot of sense that we humans would expect God to get angry.

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Bush Tells Rick Warren: 'People Didn't Think I Could Read, Much Less Write'

The Los Angeles Times | Mitchell Landsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bush drew cheers and sustained applause over the course of an hourlong conversation with Pastor Rick Warren, himself a bestselling author ("The Purpos...

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Holiday Shocker: George W. Bush Awarded the Medal of Honor

Stephen Ducat | Posted 05.25.2011

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This most recent gesture of President Obama's post-election goodwill toward Republicans has stunned Washington insiders and the public, especially those who have accused him of being reluctant to take bold action.

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Filling the Government Gap: Churches and Community Coping

Curtis Valentine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The financial crisis has elevated the church to more than a place of worship but a place of refuge for the millions of Americans struggling to survive the economic crisis.

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The Prehistory of Prop 8

Christopher Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

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When defenders of "traditional marriage" make their appeals to some universally-accepted notion of what marriage is, they're talking through their hats. No such institution exists, or ever has.

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Constructive Impatience

Joan Garry | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, to my fellow LGBT friends and our straight allies -- let's use the Rick Warren choice as an opportunity to be impatient. I for one plan to be impatient constructively.

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Firestick Plant INJURES Pastor Rick Warren, Sends Him To Hospital

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Pastor Rick Warren was briefly hospitalized due to an eye-injury that he suffered while gardening at home. Warren's spoke...

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Aspen Ideas Festival Speakers Dinner -- What We Learned This Year

Lynda Resnick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every year, my husband and I open our doors for the thought leaders in the Aspen Ideas Festival. At our dinner, I always give a little speech outlining what I have learned from the sessions I attended. Here are some highlights from this year.

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TheCall Uganda: Anti-Gay American Evangelical Going to Inflame Hate in Uganda

Waymon Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The situation in Uganda continues to deteriorate as news now comes of more radical American Evangelicals going into the heated atmosphere of anti-gay hate to hold a huge homophobic rally.

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'Soul Of A Citizen': Jesus And Climate Change -- The Journey Of Evangelical Leader Rich Cizik

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011

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When we become frustrated in working for change, we might remember how hope can come from unexpected places and historically resistant constituencies. Rich Cizik's efforts to engage his fellow evangelicals on global warming exemplifies this.

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Purpose Driven Life Author Rick Warren's Next Book Delayed Indefinitely

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a press release today, Zondervan, a HarperCollins company, announced the release of Rick Warren's book, "The Hope You Need: From the Lord's Prayer"...

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