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Rick Warren: On the Saddleback Church Forum
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<!-- if browser does now support iframes insert this --> <table width=428 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td width="10"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> <td class="text10"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="408" height="3" alt="" border="0"><br> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/mccains_faith_journey_largely_unspoken/">McCain’s faith journey largely unspoken</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4255/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4255/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="McCain's faith journey largely unspoken" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4255/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain has one story he tells again and again about his religious life. In a campaign ad, a family memoir, and most recently a televised interview with megachurch pastor Rick Warren, he recalls a guard in his prisoner of war camp in Vietnam who silently shared his faith one Christmas.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "He stood there for a minute, and with his sandal on the dirt in the courtyard, he drew a cross and he stood there," McCain told Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Saturday…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-20 08:06:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/christian_parents_seek_out_holistic_circumcisions1/">Christian parents seek out `holistic circumcisions’</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4250/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4250/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Christian parents seek out `holistic circumcisions'" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4250/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="Mark Kushner pulled up to the Watson family's suburban Philadelphia home a week after the birth of their first son, Colin. In the dining room, he unpacked the tools of his trade: sterilized surgical instruments, topical anesthetic, prayer shawls and a small bottle of kosher wine.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The shawls went back into his black bag. But to Megan and Christopher Watson's happy surprise, the mohel -- pronounced "moyle," the title for a Jewish ritual circumciser -- had copies of several prayers appropriate…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-19 07:41:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/megachurch_reflects_on_presidential_event/">Megachurch reflects on presidential event</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4231/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4231/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Megachurch reflects on presidential event" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4231/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- A day after hosting presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, megachurch pastor Rick Warren said Sunday (Aug. 17) that a politician's soul is as important as his solutions. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "Don't just look at issues, look at character," Warren sermonized here at his Saddleback Church. "Issues are important but you also have to look at character." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The megachurch pastor made only a passing reference to his "buddies named Barack and John," but he made clear…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-18 08:13:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/buddhism_gets_political_sometimes_violent_over_tibet/">Buddhism gets political, sometimes violent, over Tibet</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4218/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4218/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Buddhism gets political, sometimes violent, over Tibet" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4218/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="&lt;p&gt; All eyes are on China as it plays host to the 2008 Olympic games, and for the moment, earlier unrest over China's treatment of Tibet has largely moved off center stage -- much to Beijing's relief.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yet the decades-long tussle over Tibet continues to color the games, and some wonder what will happen after the Olympic torch is extinguished and the world goes home. Will the games have done anything to soften China's approach to Tibet?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The run-up to the games made many nervous.…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-15 07:46:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/belief_in_hell_dips_but_some_say_theyve_already_been_there/">Belief in hell dips, but some say they’ve already been there</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4215/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4215/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Belief in hell dips, but some say they've already been there" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4215/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Ernie Long believes he has been to hell. He can even narrow it down to a particular moment. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; His mother was dying of cancer. As she lay on her death bed, he swiped her last $5 and the car keys from her purse, went out and got high. When he returned, she was dead. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Long goes quiet, thinking about it in the chapel of Guiding Light Mission in Grand Rapids, Mich. When he first moved to the homeless shelter, he recalls, he would wake up in the night haunted…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-14 08:24:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/churches_try_to_meet_needs_of_autistic_kids/">Churches try to meet needs of autistic kids</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4200/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4200/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Churches try to meet needs of autistic kids" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4200/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="DAMASCUS, Md. -- On Sunday mornings at Damascus Road Community Church, when the children are dismissed from the sanctuary for Sunday school, another set of children and adults head to "The Haven."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As many as four dozen people gather in the church gym to play games and review a Scripture lesson on a sheet with fill-in-the-blank answers. It's a calm, structured atmosphere where no one seems to notice if a child is a little quiet, or if another writes outside the blanks or a teen or adult…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-13 08:56:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/new_bible_carves_up_stories_along_historical_timeline1/">New Bible carves up stories along historical timeline</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4178/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4178/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="New Bible carves up stories along historical timeline" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4178/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="Bob Sanford wanted to create a Bible that would bring order and clarity to the text. Instead, he's waded right into one of the great debates of biblical scholarship.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "The Chronological Study Bible" will be released this fall in the midst of a Bible-publishing boom in the United States. In an industry that now as much to do with profits as with prophets, Sanford expects his new edition to have wide appeal.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "(Our challenge) is to take the scholarship and make it enjoyable…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-12 08:52:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/shakers_cling_to_life_and_no_they_dont_just_make_furniture/">Shakers cling to life, and no, they don’t just make furniture</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4172/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4172/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Shakers cling to life, and no, they don't just make furniture" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4172/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="SABBATHDAY LAKE, Maine -- Arnold Hadd is the last Shaker man on Earth. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A polite man, he is simple in his speech, still utilizing the traditional "yay" and "nay" in place of the common "yes" and "no." Yet when the discussion turns to the Shakers' perceived legacy as craftspeople, his mannerisms change.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "In the vernacular, it pisses me off," he says. "Everybody comes here thinking we're a guild of furniture makers, which is about as far away from the truth as it can be."…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-11 07:59:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/us_flag_bearer_found_new_life_in_new_york_foster_family/">U.S. flag-bearer found new life in New York foster family</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4162/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4162/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="U.S. flag-bearer found new life in New York foster family" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4162/" dc:subject="Feature Article,Feature Article of the Week" dc:description="&lt;p&gt; TULLY, N.Y. -- Robert Rogers was intrigued seven years ago by the advertisement in a church bulletin seeking foster parents for "Lost Boys" from Sudan.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "This looks interesting," he told his wife, Barbara, at the end of Mass at St. Leo Church.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He still remembers her reaction: "You're out of your mind."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He was out of town on the day of the meeting about the foster children, so his wife went. "When I came home ... we were all signed up and ready to go," he…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-08 07:57:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <b><a target="_top" href="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/elvis_boyhood_church_to_reopen_in_mississippi1/">Elvis’ boyhood church to reopen in Mississippi</a></b><br><br> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4148/" trackback:ping="http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/trackback/4148/CrZPjuI6/" dc:title="Elvis' boyhood church to reopen in Mississippi" dc:identifier="http://religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/trackbacks/4148/" dc:subject="Feature Article" dc:description="The simple wood chapel 110 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn., is no Crystal Cathedral. But the East Tupelo (Miss.) First Assembly of God building had a greater impact on 20th-century music than any of America's gilded megachurches.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Inside its walls, Elvis Aron Presley discovered God and gospel music, learning to strum a guitar and sing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Closed to the public for more than a half-century, the building was restored this year by the Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation. On Saturday…" dc:creator="Tracy Gordon" dc:date="2008-08-07 08:20:00 PM GMT" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <br> </td> <td width="10"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <!-- end no iframes insert -->
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