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May 15, 2007
Jerry Falwell's OC Connections
Noted evangelical windbag Jerry Falwell was raptured today, and we're sure God strained his back from carrying that hefty sack into the sky. In honor of his death, we submit some of Falwell's brushes with our sordid county: • Back in the early 1990s, Orange County-based Citizens for Honest gov ... More >>
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November 14, 2007
Will Rick Warren Save the Jews?
Sorry for the tardiness of this post--have been on the road... The New York Times recently published a fascinating piece on how Saddleback Church mega-pastor Rick Warren is teaching Jews how to invigorate their congregations. The story reveals that Warren has lectured before Conservative congregati ... More >>
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November 21, 2007
Rick Warren: World's Sexiest Preacher?
That's the opinion of The Wittenburg Door, the online newsletter of the legendary prosperity-preacher exposers the Trinity Foundation. "Don't let Rick Warren's disheveled Hawaiian shirt and receding hairline fool you," writes one Skippy R. "Although he says his idea of fashion is wearing "clothes t ... More >>
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February 7, 2008
Romney Drops Out, Cites Rick Warren Badly; Baby Hewie Cries
In Mitt Romney's rambling, scary speech announcing he's dropping out of the Republican presidential campaign, the flip-flopper uttered this curious line: Americans love God, and those who don’t have faith, typically believe in something greater than themselves—a “Purpose Driven Life.” Wait ... More >>
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August 15, 2008
Warren Ain't no Schuller
The eyes of America fall upon Saddleback Church tomorrow, where recent Time cover boy Rick Warren plays Tim Russert while he interviews presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama. There is a lot of grousing amongst people for the outlandish admission fees Warren is charging, monies he claims ... More >>
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August 16, 2008
Riding Low in the Saddleback
By Eleanor Carmichael It was hotter than Hell when I arrived at Saddleback Church (my former parish—no, seriously) for the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency. Unfortunately, I couldn’t look forward to sitting in the main worship center near Rick Warren, Barack Obama or John McCain. OC We ... More >>
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August 19, 2008
Rick Warren Superstar
Just about everything that can be said has been said about pastor Rick Warren's performance this past weekend with underlings John McCain and Barack Obama. Except this: by getting all moving cameras in the Free World fixed on his Saddleback Church, Warren officially propelled himself past two other ... More >>
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August 25, 2005
Less Christ, More Right
Rick Warren unveils his strategy to fight AIDS: the gospel of the GOP
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November 12, 2008
God Punks Rick Warren!
Saddleback Church head Rick Warren was on Hannity & Colmes last night giving non-answers to whether he supports domestic partnerships instead of gay marriage and continuing his ahistorical analysis of marriage through history. But I could only pay so much attention to the Purpose-Driven Man before I ... More >>
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December 17, 2008
The Purpose Driven Knife in the Back of Obama's Gay Supporters
Perhaps for not going so hard on Barack Obama in last summer's Saddleback presidential forum, the Lake Forest mega-church's pastor, Rick Warren (right), will deliver the invocation at the president-elect's swearing-in ceremony Jan. 20, reports CNN. Warren did not make a public endorsement in the rac ... More >>
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December 18, 2008
Has Orange County Christianity Jumped the Shark?
The country is abuzz with President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Saddleback Church's Rick "Purpose-Driven Life" Warren to offer the invocation at next month's presidential inauguration. Let others debate the merits of the choice--I personally think Warren's beginning to wade into the political wat ... More >>
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December 23, 2008
Is Rick Warren Outing His Tolerant Self of Just Bluffing?
UPDATED WITH PASTOR WILEY DRAKE SAYING GOD WILL PUNISH RICK WARREN FOR PARTICIPATING IN OBAMA INAUGURATION (SEE THE VERY END).The choice of Rick Warren as Barack Obama's inaugural invocation giver has apparently so touched the leader of Lake Forest's Saddleback Church that he has become The Most Tol ... More >>
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December 24, 2008
When the Going Gets Tough, the Rick Warren Scandal Gets Weird
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has today's best assessment of the Rick Warren-Barack Obama invocation dust up: "Not only is it getting worse, it's getting weirder."Yesterday, there was Pastor Wiley Drake of First Baptist Church in Buena Park demonizing Warren's participation in the Jan. 20 inauguration of ou ... More >>
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December 31, 2008
Looking Back at 2008: The Ecstasy and the Irony
This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasol ... More >>
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January 13, 2009
Rick Warren Offers to Save Homo-Hating St. James Anglican Church, But Where's Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr?
Rick Warren has finally crossed the Rubicon of homo-hating with his invitation to St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach to set up camp at Saddleback Church because the California State Supreme Court recently ruled they can't stay on their Balboa Peninsula property. A quick primer: St. James spl ... More >>
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January 19, 2009
Sign From God? Rick Warren Shouted Down at MLK Service
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that protesters interrupted pastor Rick Warren's speech to a packed house for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta today--one day before the leader of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest is to deliver a controversy ... More >>
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January 20, 2009
Pastor Rick Finds It Chilly in D.C.
UPDATED... Following up on Gustavo's thoughts here: CNN pundit Roland Martin (loved his show, Laugh-In) had this to say about Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren: "There were not many people clapping when his name was announced." That was right after another CNN pundit observed that those w ... More >>
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February 10, 2009
Gay Marriage Rally in Front of OC Church Has a Twist This Time
Ho-hum, supporters of marriage equality are planning a big rally outside yet another Orange County church. Tell it to Rick Warren. Or Ted Haggard. Or Mormony McMormon. Maybe they'll get all fired up by signs stating, "No on Hate--No on Prop 8," "I Want to See My Daddies MARRIED!" and "Jesu ... More >>
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April 13, 2009
Rick Warren is a Big, Fat Coward
So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
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January 15, 2009
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September 11, 2008
[Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape
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August 21, 2008
A Former Saddleback Congregant-Turned-Cub Reporter Purposely Drives to Rick Warren's Candidate Forum
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December 7, 2006
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October 19, 2006
The Purpose Driven Life
Seemed like a good idea at the time . . .
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April 29, 2009
Navel Gazing: The Avis of Journalistic Blogs in the West
Dear readers, prepare to withstand some navel gazing about Navel Gazing, the OC Weekly staff news blog: It has won second-place honors from Best of the West, which was founded in 1987 to promote freedom of information and reward journalistic excellence, mainly through its contest for newspapers and ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
North Carolina Pastor to Burn Books of Local "Heretics" Rick Warren, Robert Schuller, and Benny Hinn
I thought book burnings in the South went with the way of the Beatles, but this shows how much I know: to celebrate Halloween, Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina will host an ol'-fashioned Scripture bonfire complete with "Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides," acco ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Updated: DUI Crackdown In OC's Three Biggest Party Towns Tonight
Watch out, sinning citizens of OC's sinningest towns. The OC Sheriff's Department will be on the streets tonight looking for drunk drivers as part of a federal anti-DUI program that targets "areas that have a high incidence of DUI related arrests and collisions."So, naturally, they're headed for ... More >>
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November 9, 2009
Rick Warren Likes Farrell's--Does Farrell's Really Want that Endorsement?
Will Farrell's soon seel a Purpose-Driven Sundae?Apparently, Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour was a pretty big deal in its day, but I wouldn't know--the only ice cream we could afford when I was a kiddie was Otter Pops. But some Orange Countians have been eagerly anticipating its return at the Shops o ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
Rick Warren Tweet Catches Wonkette's Wary Eye
It's safe to say Wonkette, "the D.C. gossip blog," is no fan of Rick Warren. The Saddleback Church pastor's Twitter page tweet above generated the following response:Here we have the most recent entry from smarmy hippopotamus Rick Warren's Twitter page, the rest of which is SO. GRATING. GAHH. (Ex ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
Who Besides Dana Rohrabacher Is Calling Us Liars on Twitter?
We try to keep up with the tweets of our elected officials in Orange County, but sometimes we get distracted by Facebook. That's the only plausible explanation for how we missed the above gem from Dana "Mr. Taliban" Rohrabacher (R - Leviticus).This blunder--overlooking prime tweets from OC mover/ ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
The Week in Underwhelming OC Polititweeters
Alright, we may have to rethink this thing a bit. After a week of watching them on our newfangled list, we're discovering that Orange County politicians/political celebrities, by and large, are pretty bad at Twitter. I mean, look at this missive from Huntington Beach congressman Dana Rohrabacher: ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Rick Warren Reaps the Anti-Gay Pastors that He Sowed in Uganda
The big story in the international gay community in the past couple of weeks has been a proposed bill in Uganda that would essentially make homosexuality punishable by death. Much heat has been placed on Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren, because he had a long-term partnership with one Martin ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
[Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009
The big story in the international gay community in the past couple of weeks has been a proposed bill in Uganda that would essentially make homosexuality punishable by death. Much heat has been placed on Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren, because he had a long-term partnership with one Martin ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Rick Warren Breakfast Quiz Time!
Wasn't here, although Warren also loves this place...Saddleback Church's pastor Rick Warren made news over the holidays with his last-minute plea for $900,000 from his parishioners in two days, the most outlandish request for funds by a local pastor since Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown beg ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Warren Can't Carry Oral Roberts' Holy Jock Strap
From the Associated Press:LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.Well, whoop-dee-freakin'-doo!
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March 20, 2010
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Asks Rick Warren to be His Jesus
Of course I'm exaggerating. But last week, the British newspaper The Observer revealed that the country's former prime minister, Tony Blair, counts Purpose-Driven® Rick on his advisory council for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which the Observer describes as a charity that "promotes cohesion bet ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
10 Reasons God Hates California
Considering Sunday's 7.2 earthquake just south of California's border with Mexico, the 4.1 shaker six miles southwest of Malibu and assorted aftershocks felt up and down the state as this is banged out with fingers crossed, it's obvious God is peeved at something. Before Pat Robertston, Wiley Dra ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Rick and Kay Warren Renew Wedding Vows, OC Register Doesn't Notice
Time was that Rick Warren would breathe, and the Orange County Register would devote a 20-part series to it. I kid--a bit. Fact is, as Purpose-Driver® Rick and his Saddleback Church grew into the evangelical powerhouse it is today, the Reg tracked nearly every step, both the initiatives that war ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Lake Forest Public Enemy #1: Plants
Flickr User burkeshire 1The last 24 hours have wrought havoc on the Kingdom Plantae, that is, at least in the oh-too-ironically-named town of Lake Forest.
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July 23, 2010
5 More Plausible, Purpose-Driven Explanations for Pastor Rick Warren Nearly Going Blind
As our man Kevin Short tells you here, Rick Warren, tweeted this week that his eyes "were severely burned by a toxic poison" during a gardening mishap that nearly blinded Saddleback Church's Purpose Driven® pastor.We not only ain't buying this explanation--and by "we" I mean "Spencer Kornhaber, ... More >>
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October 9, 2010
Far-Right Journalists Accuse Rick Warren of Coddling Terrorists
Saddleback Church lead pastor Rick Warren, he of the Purpose-Driven Life®, gets criticism from all sides, but the jibes I find most amusing usually come from the extreme right, both of the political and religious wings, which consider him a liberal heretic. If only! Christianity Today recently c ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
George W. Bush and Pastor Rick Warren, Together Again
George W. Bush is pushing his new book, My Pet Goat . . . er . . . Decision Points. Pastor Rick Warren is pushing Saddleback Church's 6th Civil Forum. In a mysterious cloud of kismet, scrath-one-another's-backsism and divine misunderestimation, the two old pals come together later this month at t ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Rick Warren Saddlebacks George W. Bush
Courtesy of Saddleback ChurchAs released WikiLeaks proved George W. Bush lied, told half-truths and lived in a world far from reality--at least as chronicled in his recently released memoir, Decision Points--the former president was receiving a reportedly "rousing reception" at Sad ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
OC Anti-Christian Persecution Group Slams North Korea, Islamic Nations
He's ill.What's the most dangerous place for Christians to practice their faith?No, it's not San Francisco.Or Miami's South Beach.
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July 8, 2011
Wake Me When The Invisible War is Over, Pastor Rick
Rick Warren is waging war on Sunday.Recognizing his enemy will be tricky since he'll be fighting "The Invisible War."That must explain the shades.Indeed, if you are a Believer like the Purpose-Driven pastor of Lake Forest's mega- Saddleback Church, you should be girding for war, too.
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July 28, 2011
Rick Warren Tweets and Then Removes Debt-Ceiling Jab
"I can see the debt ceiling from here."Saddleback (mega-) Church's pastor Rick Warren's got a loose Twitter finger again, texting and then deleting a jab at those who want to raise the nation's debt ceiling."HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the o ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Will Saddleback Church Snap Up Albert Pujols, Christianity's Biggest Free Agent?
Warren and Pujols: A Murderer's Row for Christ?Going off what Coker posted yesterday about Christians looking toward new Anaheim Angels slugger Albert Pujols to bring a bunch of Papist Mexis in la naranja toward Christ, the question then becomes: what local church will Pujols sign up for as his n ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Rick and Kay Warren Bitch-Slap Prominent Christian Commentator about AIDS
Warren: Bustin' out his righteous pimp hand?It's rare that we ever offer kind words about Saddleback Church's Rick Warren--scratch that, I do believe this is the first time EVER we'll ever offer kind words about Purpose-Driven® Rick. But we praise the good 'round here, and that's exactly what Wa ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Rick Warren and Rick Santorum: Once Married?
Whoa! It looked for a second like Rick Warren had come out of the closet--and brought out Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum with him. He tweeted Sunday: "Mrs #RickSantorum once gave me her ticket to State of the Union.She stayed with kids.So we went as Rick&Rick!" That wack ... More >>
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