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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Man With The Purpose | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...American Religion, says Saddleback's megachurch ministry appeals to the notion that size equals success. "We're told that [his philosophy] not only does something for you in the sense of giving your life meaning but it also makes you happy materially, religiously and spiritually," Roof says. "What Rick is marketing is a kind of American religious ideology that conflates growth with salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Man With The Purpose | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...Scully ordered Foster to keep quiet—and, according to Foster as well as others, threatened to fire him if he didn’t. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., told The New York Times that “Tom Scully told my staff that Rick Foster would be ‘fired so fast his head would spin’ if he released [the drug bill’s costs...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: The Case of the Healthcare Coverup | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...things, a burier of hatchets and skeletons and whatever else would look prettier covered by a manicured lawn or a bluestone patio or a Har-Tru tennis court. Of course, Lee isn't the first to point out that the suburbs hide uncharted depths of misery and discontentment--Updike, Rick Moody and John Cheever, among many others, have been here before. But Lee's portrait feels somehow more up-to-date than anything else out there, complete with postboom McMansions that take up all but a fringe of their .47-acre lots. Never mind that Jerry, a landscaping contractor, thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival in the Suburbs | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...supermarkets, gas stations and offices, it pastes an official seal that reads fair trade certified, proof that it paid a living wage to the growers. "The Taste of a Better World" is Green Mountain's marketing slogan, and its Fair Trade sales grew 92% last year. Says spokesman Rick Peyser: "Fair Trade puts the farmer's face on the cup of coffee. Our customers want the human link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: The Coffee Clash | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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