The author of the best-selling book "The Purpose-Driven Life" is to interview McCain and Obama on Saturday. The candidates will appear together at Warren's 20,000-member Saddlebac ...

Rick Warren has announced his retirement as lead pastor after 42 years of leading Saddleback Church in Orange County. (Nick Ut / Associated Press) Rick Warren, the founder of a sprawling megachurch, a ...

As a Baptist seminary student in Fort Worth, Texas, Rick Warren launched an idea that, years later, would propel a seven-person Bible group in a Laguna Hills condo into one of the nation’s largest ...

BALTIMORE (RNS) Speaking of mental illness, Warren said: “If your brain doesn’t work right and you take a pill, why are you supposed to be ashamed of that?” BALTIMORE (RNS) — Sharing how he has coped ...

LAKE FOREST – Three months following his son’s death, an emotional Rick Warren will return to his church today ending the longest break he has taken from preaching in 40 years. Kay Warren, his wife, ...

The founder of Saddleback Church in California, Pastor Rick Warren, spoke with Neil Cavuto on "Your World" Friday and discussed keeping Easter services and celebrations alive amid the coronavirus ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif. — A year after his son’s suicide, popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren is taking on a new mental health ministry inspired by his personal tragedy. Warren, founder of Saddleback ...

Pastor Rick Warren, the influential leader of the Evangelical Christian Saddleback Valley Community Church, has been reeling from the sudden, tragic suicide of his 27 year-old son, Matthew Warren.

Pastor Rick Warren returned to the pulpit Saturday afternoon at the Southern California megachurch he founded It was the first time Warren had taken the Saddleback pulpit since his son killed himself ...

LAKE FOREST — Rick Warren, the prominent Orange County pastor who founded Saddleback Church, is recovering after undergoing emergency surgery for a perforated intestine. In an email to his church on ...

Besides filling Cabinet posts, President-elect Barack Obama has been announcing the program for next month's inauguration ceremonies. A lot of controversy followed the announcement that Pastor Rick ...

Rick Warren’s announcement on June 6 that he plans to step away from his role as lead pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest raises the issue of succession in evangelical megachurches. It’s a ...