Comments on: Readers Digest drops Rick Warren – purpose driven split

By: Therese

Therese — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:59:39 +0000

Hmmm, let me see if I’ve got this straight – Rick Warren believes that Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, who spins the planets on their axes and placed the galaxies and stars in the universe, who fashioned atoms and molecules and genetic structures, exists in order to give us mortals a purpose in life…oookkkaaayyy….

By: hopeome

hopeome — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:06:03 +0000

Remember Barabas was set free which tells me that they honour thieves more than they do Jesus.

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:17:33 +0000

I think Rick Warren has far bigger issues to deal with than the loss of a business contract.

His friendship with Ugandan dictators, his inability to condemn current legislation in that country he played too big a part in, to be unable to speak about other than himself and the ties he supposedly cut he has chosen to not renouce.

http://wthrockmorton.com/2009/10/31/rick-and-kay-warren-issue-statement-regarding-martin-ssempas-activities-in-uganda/

By: Mark Byron

Mark Byron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:21:28 +0000

It was a business model that didn’t work. $7/issue for a coffee-tabler had a modest following of Warren “fanboys.” Had it been more modestly priced and more frequent, it might have had a shot.

For most everyone else, you can take that $30/year subscription price and buy three copies of The Porpoise-Driven Life (Avoid Sin-Follow the Fin;-) or whatever suits your fancy at the bookstore.

What caught my eye on this comment is the phrase business model; when you wind up looking at it through the lens of a marketing prof, it starts to look very tacky and a of Laodician barf-inducer. Warren should have known better.

That being said, Torontonian Warren is merely the flavor of the month in evangelical circles. Players come and go and the Church as a whole still goes forward. Few of the evangelical big-shots of the 70s are still around as they were, and it isn’t surprising that Warren and FotF slide back a notch or two from their high-water marks.

By: Torontonian

Torontonian — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:26:24 +0000

It is now one year after Obama’s election and
I wonder if there has been a general decline or
turning away from evangelicalism and the type
of faith-oriented “dogma” that Bush’s people
caused to pervade the land.

Is it, like the GOP, in serious decline and, if so, why?

Focus on the Family is nearly a skeleton of itself
and other organisations are also feeling the cuts
to themselves.

Has Obama caused this or are people just tired of
being dictated to my faith leaders?
Since the Republicans are now a shadow of their
former selves, is the same thing happening to
the “churches” that the evangelicals attend?