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Rick Warren: work in progress?
Jan. 01, 2009We’re in Pennsylvania for Christmas. Under the coffee table lies Rev. Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life, one of more than 25 million sold in the United States. Warren, selected by Barack Obama to deliver the inaugural invocation, is much in the news.
He backed California’s Proposition 8, a ballot measure banning gay marriage, arguing that “we should not allow 2 percent of the population [gays and lesbians] to change the definition of marriage.” He fueled the fire, comparing gay unions to the marriage of a brother and sister or to polygamous relationships. Meanwhile, he recently expressed some openness to the idea of civil unions and domestic partnerships.
None of this is discussed in The Purpose-Driven Life, nor is his support for measures to curb global warming and to fund antipoverty programs, or his opposition to abortion.
From intern to publisher
Sep. 28, 2008
Joe FeuerherdTwenty-four years ago, as a Catholic University of America junior, I began what has become the longest and most fulfilling professional association of my career. As an NCR Washington intern, I made the coffee, sorted mail, answered phones, clipped newspapers -- and grabbed whatever reporting assignments I could finagle.
Over the next year and a half, I learned how to be a journalist, including, of course, how to write so that people might actually read what I’d written. It was a joy.
