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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 27, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Debbie Carona wants out
Debbie Carona wants out: On Halloween day, the Weekly sat in a crowded Santa Ana courtroom and watched the odd trio of sheriff, wife and mistress twitching as they sat cuffed and in uncomfortably close quarters. Debbie Carona sat a lawyer away from her hubby and did not so much as look at him the e ... More >>
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December 13, 2007
Is Rick Warren a Terrorist Appeaser?
That's the stunning insinuation put forth by Joseph Farrah, editor of the conservative website WorldNetDaily. Farrah takes Warren--head of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, author of The Purpose-Driven Life...are you readers really that much of heathens or OC-illiterate that I need to continue?--to ... 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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June 5, 2008
More Reasons to Like Rick Warren
On Father's Day weekend, Rick "Purpose-Driven Life" Warren of Lake Forest's Saddleback Church will do something extraordinary in evangelical Christian circles: he'll treat queers as normal folks. He'll be meeting with members of Soulforce, a nonprofit dedicated to seek "freedom for lesbian, gay, bi ... More >>
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June 30, 2008
Rev. Schuller Spins Orange Coast Magazine
Like Rich, we're excited to see the "new" Orange Coast, and wish it the best even though it's now technically a competitor. I've yet to see the issue that Rich dissected but did catch the one before, one that already had hints of the literary journalism and well-written analysis readers can expect u ... 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 22, 2008
This Week in the OC Weekly
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 27, 2008
Democrat Boss (& Daybreak OC) Clueless on Cultural Reference
During Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church Obama-McCain interviews earlier this month, the pastor asked McCain to identify the “three wisest people that [sic] you know that you would rely on heavily in an administration.” McCain quickly named General David Petraeus and Lindsey Graham, a Republica ... More >>
News
August 25, 2005
Less Christ, More Right
Rick Warren unveils his strategy to fight AIDS: the gospel of the GOP
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October 31, 2008
Gay Marriage, Rick Warren, and Chinigchinich
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 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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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 >>
Culture
February 26, 2009
How William Lobdell Lost His Faith in Orange County
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 >>
Music
January 1, 2009
[Sound Guy] Recent OC Transplant Gives an Outsider's Perspective on Our Live Music Venues
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 >>
News
September 11, 2008
[Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape
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 >>
News
August 21, 2008
A Former Saddleback Congregant-Turned-Cub Reporter Purposely Drives to Rick Warren's Candidate Forum
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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December 7, 2006
Commie Girl
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March 2, 2000
Mark of the Beast
Dornans kid: An old voice for a new generation
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August 3, 2009
Muslim, Jewish, Christian Leaders Explore Life's Biggest Question
It's neither the embodiment of a "rabbi, imam and Christian pastor walk into a [insert place]" joke, nor another example of one of today's too frequent clashes of cultures and religions that the Islamic Institute of Orange County is presenting Sunday. Instead, it's a rare opportunity to witness ... 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 1, 2009
Crime Time: Alleged Rummy Mommy, Ex-Cop Robber, Sticky Fingers, Douches on (and Taking) Bikes and Really Bad Karaoke Singers
It's the Weekly's weekly police blotter--now with more alleged rummy mommies, ex-cop robbers, sticky fingers, douches on bikes and really bad karaoke singers.MONDAY, NOV. 23 Insert car here.That Walled-In Feeling A man crashing his black Toyota Corolla into a wall at the Shell gas station at Lake ... 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 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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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!
News
February 11, 2010
Orange County's Sexiest Cities
[Sex Issue] Our guide to the steamiest-and not so steamy-municipalities
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March 23, 2010
Get Your Horny Teen Daughters Free Tickets to See Jonas Brothers Perform at Saddleback Easter Service
Your teenage daughter likes Jesus, but loves the Jonas Brothers!As previously reported, the Jonas Brothers are performing at megachurch Saddleback's April 3-4 Easter service at Angel Stadium. The sibling act has made a career of, ah, elating, teenage girls and so it makes total sense that they would ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Ira Gabor Essoe Jr., Fallen Officer Remembered 30 Years After He Was Shot
Photo by John GilhooleyThe memorial service for Sgt. Ira Essoe fills the Saddleback Church worship sanctuary.Sadly, memorial services for officers killed in the line of duty are not unusual, but yesterday's at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest for Orange County Sheriff's Sgt. Ira Gabor Essoe Jr. d ... 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
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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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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February 17, 2011
6 Questions Pastor Rick Warren Should Ask Tony Blair
Coming up next on The Saddleback Church Comedy Hour with Pastor Rick is former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who stunned Americans with his poise, intelligence and speaking ability at podiums next to George W. Bush's--while at the same time being branded "Bush's poodle" by Brits.Rick Warren ... More >>
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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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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 9, 2012
Foothill Ranch Desperately Needs a Clustertruck
Get thee to Foothill Ranch, young man!I know very little about Foothill Ranch other than Oakley is there, that Saddleback Church is nearby, and that the food pickings out there are desperately bad. Hence, the following desperate plea/comment left today on a post Edwin did back in 2009:We need som ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
[POLL CLOSES THIS FRIDAY] How Orange County Has Sex
Swing, baby: SWING!Gentle Readers: in our never-ending quest to document this infernal county county of ours, behold our sex survey, in which we'll try to determine at which end of the spectrum OC falls: the chaste promise rings of the Saddleback Church crowd, or the cock rings of legendary porno ... 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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February 3, 2012
Rick Warren: Patron Saint of Humblebraggadocio
Pound for pound, preachers are the best humblebraggers around because they can rattle off a list of professional accomplishments while giving God the glory for "working through them." It's a nifty trick that can be pulled off only by those who make a living chatting with the Lord and sharing his ... More >>
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