Rick Warren
Pastor, Musical Artist
1954 –
Who is Rick Warren?
Richard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States. He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent devotional The Purpose Driven Life which has sold over 30 million copies, making Warren a New York Times bestselling author.
Warren holds conservative theological views and holds traditional evangelical views on social issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, abstinence-only education over the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS, and embryonic stem-cell research.
During the 2008 United States presidential election, Warren hosted the Civil Forum on The Presidency at his church with both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama. Obama later sparked controversy when he asked Warren to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration in January 2009.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1954
San Jose - Also known as
- Richard Warren
- Richard Duane "Rick" Warren
- Rick
- Richard Duane Warren
- Dr. Rick Warren
- Pastor Rick Warren
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Evangelicalism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- California Baptist University
- Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Fuller Theological Seminary
- Lived in
- San Jose
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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