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When Mel Gibson began looking for influential ministers to endorse his controversial film, The Passion of the Christ, high on his list was the Rev. Rick Warren, founding pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. (Warren loved the movie, reserved blocks of seats at local cinemas for his parishioners and on two weekends last month delivered sermons on the Passion and plans another one for Easter.) When the White House wanted advice on how to observe the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, aides called Warren to meet with the President, the First Lady and West Wing...
...churches across the country in weekly gatherings at which small groups are schooled in Purpose-Driven living. At one of those churches, Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church in Gulf Breeze, Fla., there have been as many as 110 such groups. Before the Purpose-Driven philosophy came along, says the Rev. Chris Nelson of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minn., "the idea was for ministers to proclaim the gospel and let people figure out what to do with it in their daily lives. Now we are far more application oriented." When Bethlehem Lutheran member Jean Westberg lost...
...Rev. John C. Rankin, president of the Theological Education Institute in Hartford, argued that gay marriage would undermine the moral and religious foundations of American society, while Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, focused on marriage as a “legal gateway” to essential rights...
...That's less than half the price of the Lotus currently being sold, the Esprit. With the shift to thrift, Lotus hopes to attract a broader customer base, including women, by competing against sports machines like the Audi TT, Honda S2000 and Porsche Boxster. Lotus thinks it can rev its U.S. business, now idling at about 125 Esprits, and sell up to 2,400 Elises a year. The Elise has scored in Europe, where the model debuted in 1996. Since then, Lotus has sold almost 20,000 of the congenially priced autos...
Reached for comment, McLeod expressed hope that the ACOI would soon gain UM membership. However, in the same e-mail, he wrote, “I doubt that the Anglican issue will keep Rev. Woodruff from being admitted to the UM”—referring to the denominational issue that has plagued the ACOI. Considering that Msgr. Sheehan cited that concern and only that concern in the UM’s very first letter to the ACOI back in April 2002, it is maddening that this small issue—which has finally been deemed irrelevent and rightly...