rick warren

Does Obama’s coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?

Who put the mega in megachurch? Two new books, one on star evangelicals and one that focuses on African-American televangelists, tell the story—and explain the remarkable influence of celebrity preachers in the religious marketplace.

Last week on Larry King, “America’s Pastor” downplayed his opposition to gay marriage. That was not always the case.

It’s easy to demonize Rick Warren for his Nazi modeling comments—and he has taken some abominable stances—but the culture of blind assent is the real culprit.

Warren’s prayer began with all of us, narrowed itself to the Judeo-Christian monotheist, then more narrowly still on the Christian, then more narrowly still on that faith as experienced by Rick Warren himself. A stunning rhetorical achievement.

The door is not just open to Muslim Americans; we are not sitting in the living room; there is a room for us in the house now.

While calling for all Americans to unite and work together, Warren used his “aggressively Christian” prayer to perpetuate and deepen the religious divide in our country.

What can the strange juxtaposition of Warren and Robinson teach us about the current state of the religion-and-culture wars?

As the Obama team rounds up unlikely bedfellows for the inaugural ceremonies it seems to have forgotten something: we are not all Christian.

Expecting the not-yet-commander-in-chief to attend to each of my parochial concerns is a little, well, precious.