Rick Warren

Faced with mounting criticism for refusing to come out against Uganda's Kill The Gays bill, bigoted pastor Rick Warren finally released a video message denouncing the bill and insisting he had nothing to do with its creation. (Despite reports, natch.) But while the video appeased some American gays who remain lived over faith-based support for [...]  

A Martin Ssempa and three other Ugandan pastors have written to Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren demanding an apology for his statement opposing Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill. In a letter sent sent to Warren, with copies provided to Christianity Today and Grove City College professor Warren Throckmorton, the four pastors write on behalf of a task [...]  

by Peter Menkin Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California is an evangelist. He is a one of a kind superpower in the evangelical Church world, and sought after for his thoughts, observations and comments by a host of prominent members of the press in the United States. In an interview conducted [...]  

By Mary Sanchez, The Kansas City Star Mega-minister Rick Warren has become a reluctant actor in the most instructive morality play of his highly televised ministry. In December, Warren had to smite the creature he had nourished and come forward to denounce efforts by Christian lawmakers in Uganda to impose draconian penalties on homosexuals. read more  

News release from Truth Wins Out: Warren Calls Bill ‘Unjust’, ‘Extreme’ and ‘Unchristian’ NEW YORK – Truth Wins Out thanked Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, today for releasing a YouTube Statement condemning the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009” that is currently...  

Rick Warren attacks anti-homosexuality bill Meanwhile, Evangelical Alliance Ireland supports pro-homosexuality bill By Julio Severo Gay activists, who despise the divine condemnation of homosexuality, do not hesitate to use and distort the words of Jesus Christ to teach Christians that the only way for Christians to be able to demonstrate love for homosexuals is by supporting the approval of anti-“homophobia” bills. Without such support...  

Rick Warren is an influential pastor, and that influence extended pretty directly to politics when he hosted a forum at which both Barack Obama and John McCain appeared during the 2008 campaign for separate, one-on-one conversations with Warren at his Saddleback Church. Some of Warren's comments about homosexuality led to a mini-firestorm of controversy before the forum--and again when Obama asked him to give the invocation at his inauguration...  

LAKE FOREST – Pastor Rick Warren and evangelist Oral Roberts shared a mutual respect for each other. Roberts – who died at 91 on Tuesday from pneumonia complications at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach – talked about Warren...  

Rick Warren on Anti-Gay Ugandan Legislation. From Newsweek: Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life, drew fire last year when he was invited to give the invocation at ...  

David Link, with his customary nuance, examines the question: Warren is all over the map on gay equality. On her show last night, Maddow clearly nailed Warren’s incoherence, both on Prop. 8 and on his role in Uganda. But that...  

Pastor Rick Warren, who has taken some grief for not speaking out against the insane level of homophobia in Uganda, has issued a video plea that asks ministers to reject a proposed law that demands the death penalty (!) in some cases for gays. I've just read it quickly, and it is a humane document. I know Rick Warren a little, and I know that, while we don't agree on issues of gay rights, he is a gentle person who doesn't want to see the...  

The roles of Newsweek and its religion reporter Lisa Miller’s as reporter (conveyor of information) and pundit (advocacy) have been blurred for a while now. One minute, Miller is reporting on a story, the next, she’s offering her personal opinion on it. Read more on Bullying Rick Warren…  

Filed under: Religion, Gay Rights, DisputationsAfter weeks of growing pressure to speak out against a draconian bill against homosexuals in Uganda that is backed by many of his Christian allies in the U.S. and the East African nation, Pastor Rick Warren on Thursday released a video and statement defending his earlier silence but also vigorously condemning the bill. Warren is a megachurch pastor in Southern California whose bestselling books...  

Since I picked Pastor Rick Warren as Idiot of the Week recently for refusing to condemn plans in Uganda to make homosexuality punishable by death, I thought it was only fair to do a brief follow-up. In response to considerable public pressure, Pastor Warren did eventually speak out against the Ugandan legislation. I remain skeptical that this remains anything more by Warren than an effort to save his tarnished reputation, but regardless, he...  

Rick Warren, the pastor who delivered the invocation at President Obama's inauguration, is once again on the defensive -- this time for his work with a Ugandan pastor who would like homosexuality to be punishable by death. Newsweek tried to get Warren's reaction to the anti-gay work of Martin Ssempa, a Ugandan pastor who has come to his Saddleback Church multiple times. (Warren has distanced himself from Ssempa in general terms, saying the...