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Both. I remember going into the supermarket, a Gristedes on 86th Street and Broadway, and it was playing in the background on the street. Somebody had a transistor radio, and they walked in with it. I thought, Oh my God, that's me. That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. And it was scary because there were all these people screaming at me at concerts and people spitting at me on the street...
...called Scrabulous, Hasbro promoted its own online version. Fans of Scrabulous, which had 500,000 daily users, went wild--and not in a good way. A "Save Scrabulous" group now has more than 50,000 members. Other protest groups include "Give Us Scrabulous or Give Us Death!" and "Please God, I Have So Little: Don't Take Scrabulous...
...Saddleback in 1980 when he was just out of Baptist seminary, with neither a building nor a congregation, and grew it relentlessly to its current size. In 1995 he shared his secrets in a book called The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission. (The "purpose" was God's.) His knack for schematization allowed almost any minister to reconfigure his church along the lines of Saddleback. Warren says that he and his staff have given "purpose-driven training" to 500,000 eager pastors worldwide and that 1 out of 20 U.S. churches has done his "40 Days...
...until 2002 that Warren became a mainstream megastar, following the publication of The Purpose Driven Life. Beyond its striking opening assertion - "It's not about you" (it's about God and you) - the book, like its predecessor, was a crystal-clear blueprint, in this case for extending Sunday spirituality to the rest of one's life. It employed the tropes of the self-help genre (A 40-day program! Exercises!) to chart a user's guide to living midstream Evangelical doctrine. (On God's wanting believers to be a "living sacrifice": "The problem with a living sacrifice is that...
...comic-book series based on characters that each personify one of the 99 qualities that the Koran attributes to God, met early resistance in places like Saudi Arabia. Local authorities worried that the series might mock Islam. But after Mutawa guaranteed that he would remain respectful of religion and won backing from a major Islamic bank, the series took off around the Gulf. Initially given away for free with Arabic versions of Marvel comics (the license for which Mutawa owns in the region), The 99 is now a stand-alone success, with some 500,000 copies given away and sold...