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Rick Warren was born in San Jose, California, and founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, in 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist University, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. Rick and his wife, Kay, live in Trabuco Canyon, California, and have three children.

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Miami Herald, April 19, 2013
...It had never occurred to me to think of God as a therapist when I began to spend time, 10 years ago, at an evangelical church in Chicago. Like many secular observers, I was interested in the fact that people like me seemed to experience reality in a...
NBCNews.com, April 18, 2013
...Saddleback Church in Southern California, where my husband and I attend services. The church is led by Pastor Rick Warren, who has inspired millions of followers through his ministry and his bestselling book, The Purpose-Driven Life. In 2011, he had...
Church Central, April 17, 2013
...marriage, the first institution that God created, what can you speak up for?" (Bob Russell at NACC 2012) Rick Warren at NACC 2012: "When God wants to make a mushroom, he takes 6 hours. When he wants to make an oak tree, he takes 60 years." "The tide...
Individual.com, April 17, 2013
...All but the coldest hearts go out this week to Rick Warren, mega-church pastor whose son Matthew shot himself to death recently. Can anything hurt more than losing a son or daughter to suicide? Some of you may remember that Warren...
Nigerian Compass, April 13, 2013
...An autopsy has determined that the son of popular U.S. evangelical pastor Rick Warren, found dead in California last week, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an Orange County Sheriff's spokesman said on Monday. Rick Warren said in a letter to staff...
Mississippi Business Journal, April 12, 2013
...future and a meaning or purpose in life were better able to survive. When The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren came out I immediately thought about Frankl’s book. Frankl’s book is also interesting for his discussion of the abuse of power, not by...
STLtoday.com, April 12, 2013
...W. Keating stltoday.com 3 hours ago • Rev. Christopher W. Keating There’s no doubt about it: Rick Warren and I have little in common. Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, is an evangelical Southern Baptist whose...
Dallas Voice, January 19, 2013
...in for President Barack Obama’s second inaugural ceremony. At Obama’s first swearing-in ceremony, controversial evangelical pastor Rick Warren delivered the invocation. This year, Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio was chosen, reportedly for...
Santa Ynez Valley News, January 19, 2013
...Bible and swear to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"? Adding more bitter irony, Rick Warren, who gave the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of this same president, America's first black president, recently said...
Macon Telegraph, January 18, 2013
...such official moments are now scrutinized. Obama made news four years ago when he selected conservative megachurch pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation. The choice angered progressives who opposed Warren’s activism against same-sex...
Record Searchlight, January 18, 2013
...Bible and swear to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"? Adding more bitter irony, Rick Warren, who gave the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of this same president, America's first black president, recently said that...
PRLog, January 18, 2013
...Well apparently you're not alone. The Purpose Driven Life is a devotional book written by Christian author Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for advice books for one of the longest periods...
Santa Maria Times, January 18, 2013
...Bible and swear to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"? Adding more bitter irony, Rick Warren, who gave the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of this same president, America's first black president, recently said...
WorldNetDaily, January 18, 2013
...and swear to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”? Adding more bitter irony, Rick Warren, who gave the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of this same president, America’s first black president, recently said...