Correction: Rick Warren-Reader's Digest story

In a Nov. 4 story about the end of a publishing partnership between pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest, The Associated Press erroneously reported that subscriptions to the Purpose Driven Connection totaled 2,500 to 5,000 per month. Subscriptions were growing by 2,500 to 5,000 per month, a project editor said. A Reader's Digest spokesman declined to release figures but said subscriptions "fell far short of expectations."

0

0

Rick Warren, Reader's Digest part ways on project

A joint publishing venture between influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest magazine has collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great fanfare.

1

0

Megachurch pastor Rick Warren addresses US Muslims

Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country told several thousand American Muslims on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems.

5

9

Warren tells breakaway Episcopalians to love all

Christians must show love to all people, even if they don't support their values, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren on Tuesday told breakaway Episcopalians and other Anglicans splitting from their national church over gay clergy and other issues.

8

78

Text of Rev. Rick Warren's inaugural invocation

Text of the invocation by Rev. Rick Warren for President Barack Obama's inauguration, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions:

5

16

Rev. Rick Warren delivers invocation

The Rev. Rick Warren has delivered the inaugural invocation, saying Barack Obama's election as the nation's first black president represents a pivotal point in history.

0

0

Gay bishop invited to pre-inauguration event in DC

The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will say a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial for one of President-elect Barack Obama's first inauguration events.

1

4

Religion news in brief

A coalition of activists is planning to protest The King Center's choice of the Rev. Rick Warren as keynote speaker on the federal observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

1

0

Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire

President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At George W. Bush's 2001 swearing-in, the Revs. Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell were criticized for invoking Christ. The distinctly Christian reference at a national civic event offended some, and even prompted a lawsuit.

16

116

Rick Warren's biggest critics: other evangelicals

Rick Warren is in a place he never expected to be: at the center of a culture war.

2

1

Lawmaker says `no' to Rev. Warren at inauguration

The longest-serving openly gay member of Congress said Sunday it was a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to invite the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.

3

8

Pastor Rick Warren defends invite to inauguration

Under fire for opposing gay marriage, influential evangelical pastor Rick Warren said Saturday that he loves Muslims, people of other religions, Republicans and Democrats, and he also loves "gays and straights."

3

2

Obama plans welcome event at Lincoln Memorial

President-elect Barack Obama will welcome Americans to his inauguration at the memorial to his political hero, Abraham Lincoln.

6

12

Sharing stage, Obama and McCain split on abortion

Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain differed sharply on abortion Saturday, with McCain saying a baby's human rights begin "at conception," while Obama restated his support for legalized abortion.

17

29

As Evangelicals Warm to Climate, Bush Cool

A top environmental advocate called it "a historic tipping point" when the Rev. Rick Warren and other prominent evangelicals joined a new drive to get their community to fight global warming.

9

1

I think this guy is a pig. I was really put off when Obama chose him to give the prayer.

0

0

Interview with Pastor Rick Warren "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman ... for me as a Christian it is also a sacred union…you know, God is in the mix," Obama declared to thunderous applause.

8

17

Many conservative evangelical Christians seem to be making a renewed commitment to "civility."

12

42

Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

4

4

No sooner had the Indianapolis Star broken the story over the weekend about mega-church pastor Rick Warren speaking at the upcoming annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America than conservative Christian bloggers started barking their disapproval.

2

3

After Rick Warren was selected by Barack Obama to give a prayer at the inauguration, attention turned to comments he made to me during an interview for Beliefnet and WSJ.com in which he appeared to equate homosexual relationships with relationships between siblings or pedophilia.

9

28

I don't know what this guy believes anymore. I don't know if he's just trying to sell a book or what.

1

0

"I was asked a question that made it sound like I equated gay marriage with pedophilia or incest, which I absolutely do not believe," Rick Warren explained this week. See? He didn't mean it!

4

3

Appearing on Larry King Live!, Pastor Rick Warren said that he is not anti-gay marriage activist, but does believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

0

0

The smoking gun. Rick Warren doesn't disagree with the totalitarian's means, he just disagrees who should be the beneficiary of man's sacrifices. Nazis say the race, communists say the class, Christians say God.

8

6

James Dobson's retirement as head of Focus on the Family signals the death of the Christian conservative movement. [...]

66

352

ANY decision Barack Obama makes can cause a stir. He invited Rick Warren, a popular pastor, to say a few words at his inauguration. The aim was to stroke conservative Christians, thereby fostering a warm feeling of national unity.

2

1

I still remember some of the emails I received from Barack during the campaign. There were dozens of them, signed only with his first name. There was the one telling me that his candidacy was really a movement. The one about his policy on withdrawing from Iraq.

2

1

The main event of yesterday's inaugural ceremonies may have been the half-accurate oath of office, but religious prayers served as the bookends.

1

2

How can I attempt to frame the auditory refrains from our own Queen Mother of Soul, Aretha Franklin, as she returned us to childhood and had two million people swaying to the goldness of her voice in unison and union? Like babes in a cradle we all felt her motherly kiss as she sa …

1

1

Joe's sister was there today (I'm home with the flu), and she says that Bishop Robinson gave the invocation, then they took about a ten minute break, THEN the HBO production started with the introduction of Obama and the rest of the show.

4

1

The mishandling of an opening prayer by Bishop Gene Robinson during Sunday's pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial is re-igniting a controversy that had seemed to be dying down.

2

4

Pastor Rick Warren gets scarier by the day. On April 17, 2005, before a congregation of 30,000 Christians at the Anaheim statium, Warren proposed Hitler Youth as a model for Christians. Yes, Hitler. In the same sermon, he invoked Lenin and Mao as models for Christianity.

1

1

As gays join other minoritites and peoples around the world to celebrate the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, one of the world's most hawkish rightwing television Fox News, tries to give rainbow colors to the entire event.

1

2

Rick Warren *directly* uses Hitler Youth, Lenin, Cultural Revolution as models for Joel's Army

Over the past few weeks, I've written about a particular aspect of Rick Warren that has so far seen very little formal media attention--his extensive connections to groups and persons connected to the "New Apostolic Reformation" aka "Joel's Army", a particularly virulent "Christi …

4

6

Should a Baptist minister be allowed to pray in the name of Jesus at a presidential inauguration but not a city council meeting? That's what we'll find out next Tuesday at President-elect Obama's swearing-in, where Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Rick Warren will deliver the i …

1

0

The Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop will deliver a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial for Sunday's opening day inaugural event.

1

1

Warren's involvement in Africa reveals a web of alliances with right-wing clergymen who have sidelined science-based approaches to combating AIDS in favor of abstinence-only education.

2

1

Rick Warren has touted his work in Africa against AIDS as one of his major accomplishments. A look by Max Blumenthal at the programs he supports there paints a less rosy picture.

11

35

Jordan Lorence, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund (a nonprofit organization of Christian attorneys) says Rick Warren's views on marriage shouldn't bar him from Barack Obama's inauguration.

1

1