While writing his best-selling book “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama asked Warren, author of the 2002 bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life,” to review the chapter on faith. President-elect Barack Obama has chosen pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
After meeting in Washington in January 2006, they began speaking regularly by phone. Warren, one of the most influential religious leaders in the nation, has championed issues. Obama and the conservative white pastor have often found common ground. President-elect Barack Obama has chosen pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. The action angered gay and lesbian rights groups because Warren supported Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban that California voters passed in November. Obama last week chose Warren, who heads Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, to deliver the invocation at next month’s inauguration.
Lekovic said he was introduced to the council by Orange County Muslim leaders who held an interfaith picnic with his congregation. Warren, like many Muslims, opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. “We’re always looking to work with unlikely partners, and I think he’s a new kind of evangelical,” said spokeswoman Edina Lekovic. (See the rest of this abbreviated list, with titles and locations, at. As leaders in the Christian community, we will not stand silent in the face of these attacks, but will instead serve as voices for equality, fairness, and justice for all people. Pastor Rick Warren is the author of The Purpose-Driven Life, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The time for scare tactics and divisiveness is over. It is time for believers to unite under the banner of truth and work to address our society's most pressing problems. In the face of this crisis, it boggles our minds and offends our God-given sense of justice that these groups would choose to attack Senator Obama and Reverend Warren – Christians both – for working together to stamp out AIDS.
And nearly 7 million people are now in desperate need of life-saving drugs, without which they will die. (Nick Ut / Associated Press) In a video message streamed Sunday, Warren. Forty million people across the globe, including 2 million children, live with this wretched disease. Rick Warren has announced his retirement as lead pastor after 42 years of leading Saddleback Church in Orange County. We also wonder why any organization claiming to represent believers in Jesus Christ would choose to play what amounts to partisan politics instead of encouraging our leaders to address the scourge of AIDS.ĪIDS has claimed the lives of 25 million people since 1981. Today’s email included a link to a video featuring Warren and his wife, Kay. We are called to the ministry of reconciliation and the liberation of all people, spiritually and socially. Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren told his Orange County, California, congregation in an email on Thursday. Warren, author of the 30 million-selling 'The Purpose-Driven Life' and pastor of a 20,000-member Orange County megachurch, is a nationally recognized avatar of this new generation of. We reject the creation of an unbiblical litmus test to exclude believers from the body of Christ. It's unfortunate that these groups would exploit the Christian faith to advance their divisive agenda – an agenda that gives almost exclusive attention to a few wedge issues while ignoring the diversity of problems plaguing American communities. Several right-wing religious organizations, including the National Clergy Council, recently blasted Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church for inviting Senator Barack Obama to speak on World AIDS Day this Friday, December 1. 1 / Christian Newswire/ - The following is an open letter to pastors across the country: An open letter to pastors across the countryĬontact: Adam Segal, Faithful Democrats, 20, ADVISORY, Dec.
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