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Myths of the Modern Megachurch. Key West, Florida. Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in May 2. Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Rick Warren, pastor of the largest church in America, addressed misconceptions many Americans have about mega- churches. He also discussed his best- selling book, The Purpose Driven Life, as well as current trends in the evangelical movement, the work his church is doing for AIDS and poverty relief in Africa, and some of his views on hot- button political and cultural issues. Other conference speakers were John Di.

Iulio (University of Pennsylvania), who spoke on faith- based initiatives, and Reuel Marc Gerecht (American Enterprise Institute), who spoke on Islam and democracy. Speaker: Rick Warren, Senior Pastor and Founder, Saddleback Church, Orange County, California. Respondent: David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times.

AOL Radio is powered by humans! Great radio is all about unexpected connections--the kind that an algorithm can't predict. Pick any station in any of the 30 genres. "Honour thy father and thy mother" is one of the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew Bible. The commandment is generally regarded in Protestant and Jewish sources as the. THE TEXT OF THE DIATESSARON SECTION I. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God is the 3 Word. This was in the beginning with God.

Moderator: Michael Cromartie, Vice President, Ethics & Public Policy Center; Senior Advisor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. MICHAEL COMARTIE: Rick Warren is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Purpose Driven Life, which sold a record- breaking seventeen million copies in its first 1. He is also the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America’s largest churches. He and his wife, Kay, began the church with one family in 1. Today the church averages over 2.

The 4. 0 Days of Purpose and the Purpose Driven movement have become a world- wide phenomena featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and TV shows. Time, Christianity Today and several other publications have named Rick Warren “the most influential pastor in America.”We’re delighted that Rick could be with us for this conference. Rick, thank you for coming and we look forward to hearing from you. MR. WARREN: Thank you. My favorite introduction was one time they said, “And here is Rick Warren, of whom Billy Graham said, ‘Who?'” (Laughter.)I am truly honored to be here.

I really mean this. When I saw your names and who was going to be on this list, I thought, you know, these are men and women that I read all of the time and I respect, and I want to thank you for the columns and the articles that you write.

Just to be sitting up here with David Brooks, I feel like we ought to reverse this, let him talk and let me comment on him because I love reading his stuff. I read all of your stuff all of the time and I just wanted to start off by saying thank you. Thank you for helping me grow, helping me develop. As a writer, you never know who is reading your stuff and so I just wanted you to know I am reading you.

I read a book a day and I read tons of magazines, tons of articles, and I just devour enormous quantities of material, and thank God for the Internet. I get The New York Times and I get The Wall Street Journal, and I get the local papers in L. A., but the rest I have to read online or in the magazines that I subscribe to. There is a verse in the Bible that says the intelligent man is always open to new ideas; in fact, he looks for them. And so when Mike invited me to come to this and I saw your names, I really jumped at the chance. I enjoy these smaller, intimate meetings.

You know, when you speak to 2. So really, anywhere I go is going to be smaller than the group I talk to on Sunday. So it’s not like I’m going to get a big wow out of a crowd.

I would much rather come and do this kind of thing where we can dialogue and talk back and forth. Last night, I was in Miami speaking to this huge international convention of all of the Spanish- language publishers and they gave me the city key to Miami, but really I would have more fun with you here today.

And then I saw you were doing it at Key West and that sealed the deal – (laughter) – because I subscribe to the Gilda Radner philosophy of fashion: I wear what doesn’t itch. Laughter.) And this is as formal as I get. I get a Hawaiian shirt every week when I speak. I wear a suit once a year on Mother’s Day to honor my wife and that is about it, and so this is right up my alley. I also wanted to come and challenge you to see your writing as a stewardship of influence.

God has put you in this position. As you can imagine, I get a lot of invitations to speak – I get about four or five a day – and so I have been choosing pretty carefully which ones to accept. And I came here because I only speak to influencers, and God has given you a degree of influence. And I would challenge you – pardon me for using a religious term – to speak in a prophetic voice. What I mean by that is in our world today we need more than information, we need more than interpretation: we need action. We’re drowning in information, and there is a famine of meaning – what does it all mean? So I have been asked today to speak on the evangelical mega- church and then a case study of Saddleback, and part of what I would like to do is share my journey – I would like to tell you the story behind the story of my life changed.

You know, when you write the best- selling book in the world for the last three years, that changes your life and I’m not the same person I was three years ago. And, you know, maybe I can share that. But since you’re journalists, before we look at this idea of the myths about the mega- churches, I would like to just give you maybe four or five trends or stories I think you need to be aware of that have come in on the scene, because as I travel around the United States, and around the world, I see them over and over. The first trend that I would say you need to be aware of is the return of the evangelical movement to its 1. What are those roots? Compassionate activism – and I am not talking about politics; I am talking about the fact that about a hundred years ago, Christianity split into two wings in the Protestant division and this hasn’t been happening with Catholicism, but it did happen in Protestantism.

There is a fellow named Walter Rauschenbusch, who is the man who came up with the term “social gospel.” Rauschenbusch was a liberal theologian and he basically said we don’t need this stuff about Jesus anymore; we don’t need the cross; we don’t need salvation; we don’t need atonement; we just need to redeem the social structures of society and if we do that people will automatically get better. This is basically Marxism in a Christian form. And there were even magazines like The Christian Century, which was a pretty audacious title when it started at the beginning of the 2. Christian century; we are going to bring in the millennium simply by changing the social structures of society.

Well, nobody believes that anymore after two world wars and a bunch of other stuff. But what happened is Protestantism split into two wings, the fundamentalists and the mainline churches. And the mainline churches tended to take the social action issues of Christianity – caring for the sick, for the poor, the dispossessed, racial justice and things like that. Today there really aren’t that many Fundamentalists left; I don’t know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren’t that many Fundamentalists left in America. Anyway, the fundamentalist and evangelical movement said they were just going to care about personal salvation when they split from the mainline churches.

What happened is the mainline churches cared about the social morality and the evangelicals cared about personal morality. That’s what happened when they split. But they really are all part of the total gospel – social justice, personal morality and salvation. And today a lot more people, evangelicals, are caring about those issues. Bono called me the other day and said why don’t you come up to the U2 concert at the Staples Center because we’re both active in AIDS prevention.

My wife and I have given millions to the prevention of AIDS and those afflicted and those orphaned by AIDS.

Van Orden v. Perry - Wikipedia. Van Orden v. Perry. Argued March 2, 2. Decided June 2. 7, 2. Full case name. Thomas Van Orden v. Rick Perry, in his official capacity as Governor of Texas and Chairman, State Preservation Board, et al. Docket nos. 0. 3- 1.

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U. S. 9. 23 (2. 00. Holding. A Ten Commandments monument erected on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol did not violate the Establishment Clause, because the monument, when considered in context, conveyed a historic and social meaning rather than an intrusive religious endorsement. Court membership.

Chief Justice. William Rehnquist. Associate Justices. John P. Stevens ·Sandra Day O'Connor. Antonin Scalia ·Anthony Kennedy. David Souter ·Clarence Thomas. Ruth Bader Ginsburg ·Stephen Breyer. Case opinions. Plurality.

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Const. amend. IVan Orden v. Perry, 5. 45. U. S. United States Supreme Court case involving whether a display of the Ten Commandments on a monument given to the government at the Texas. State Capitol in Austin violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In a suit brought by Thomas Van Orden of Austin, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in November 2. Van Orden appealed, and in October 2.

Mc. Creary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, a similar case challenging a display of the Ten Commandments at two county courthouses in Kentucky.

The appeal of the 5th Circuit's decision was argued by Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional lawscholar and the Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, who represented Van Orden on a pro bono basis. Texas' case was argued by Texas Attorney General.

Greg Abbott. An amicus curiae was presented on behalf of the respondents (the state of Texas) by then- Solicitor General. Paul Clement. The Supreme Court ruled on June 2. The Court chose not to employ the popular Lemon test in its analysis, reasoning that the display at issue was a "passive monument."[1] Instead, the Court looked to "the nature of the monument and .

Nation’s history."[1] Chief Justice William Rehnquist delivered the plurality opinion of the Court; Justice Stephen Breyer concurred in the judgment but wrote separately. The similar case of Mc. Creary County v. ACLU of Kentucky was handed down the same day with the opposite result (also with a 5 to 4 decision). The "swing vote" in both cases was Breyer. Background[edit]. Ten Commandments Monument at the Texas State Capitol. The monument challenged was 6- feet high and 3- feet wide was placed in 1.

It was donated to the State of Texas by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a civic organization, with the support of Cecil B. De. Mille, who had directed the film The Ten Commandments.[2] The State accepted the monument and selected a site for it based on the recommendation of the state agency responsible for maintaining the Capitol grounds. The donating organization paid for its erection.

Two state legislators presided over the dedication of the monument. The monument was erected on the Capitol grounds, behind the capitol building (between the Texas Capitol and Supreme Court buildings). The surrounding 2.

Texan identity."Plurality opinion[edit]The plurality opinion stated that the monument was constitutional, as it represented historical value and not purely religious value. The primary content is the text of the Ten Commandments. An eagle grasping the American flag, an eye inside of a pyramid, and two small tablets with what appears to be an ancient script are carved above the text of the Ten Commandments. Below the text are two Stars of David and the superimposed Greek letters.

Chi and Rho, which represent Christ. The bottom of the monument bears the inscription "PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE AND YOUTH OF TEXAS BY THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES OF TEXAS 1. Below the above matter, and the title "the Ten Commandments", the monument's text reads in full: I AM the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

Thomas Van Orden challenged the constitutionality of the monument. A native Texan, Van Orden passed by the monument frequently when he would go to the Texas Supreme Court building to use its law library. Breyer's concurrence[edit]. Monument with State Capitol in background. Breyer's concurrence in this case is made all the more interesting because on the surface it appears that he voted quite differently in the Mc. Creary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, a case which was heard and decided at the same time and seems, to the casual observer, virtually identical. However, in Van Orden v.

Perry, Breyer submitted an opinion separate from that of the Court, while in Mc. Creary he did not.

As a result, the Van Orden case was decided by a plurality, not a majority as the other. In opening his discussion of reasoning Breyer states: The case before us is a borderline case. It concerns a large granite monument bearing the text of the Ten Commandments located on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. On the one hand, the Commandments' text undeniably has a religious message, invoking, indeed emphasizing, the Deity. On the other hand, focusing on the text of the Commandments alone cannot conclusively resolve this case. Rather, to determine the message that the text here conveys, we must examine how the text is used. And that inquiry requires us to consider the context of the display.

He then goes on to list points which are stated to be insufficient individually, but together seem to provide a reasonable basis for "secular purpose": The monument's 4. Texas state grounds indicates that nonreligious aspects of the tablets' message predominate. The group that donated the monument, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is a private civic (and primarily secular) organization. Who, while interested in the religious aspect of the Ten Commandments, sought to highlight the Commandments' role in shaping civic morality as part of that organization's efforts to combat juvenile delinquency. The Eagles' consulted with a committee composed of members of several faiths in order to find a nonsectarian text — an act which underscores the group's ethics- based motives.

The tablets, as displayed on the monument, prominently acknowledge that the Eagles donated the display. The physical setting of the monument suggests little or nothing of the sacred. The monument sits in a large park containing 1. Texas and of those who have lived there since that time. The setting does not readily lend itself to meditation or any other religious activity. The setting does provide a context of history and moral ideals.

The larger display (together with the display's inscription about its origin) communicates to visitors that the State sought to reflect moral principles, illustrating a relation between ethics and law that the State's citizens, historically speaking, have endorsed. That is to say, the context suggests that the State intended the display's moral message — an illustrative message reflecting the historical "ideals" of Texans — to predominate.