Pastor Rick Warren partners with Readers' Digest to help people on their spiritual journeys.

[madfloridian]

A national magazine openly allying with the pastor who was prominent in getting Proposition 8 passed by preaching from the pulpit.

A national magazine is openly allying with a minister to spread religious views. I have not read it in a long time, but something is just wrong with this picture.

Readers' Digest is partnering to spread religious propaganda. Yes, I know Rick Warren is the pastor the Democrats respect. That makes it worse. As a recovering Southern Baptist I say it is time to stop letting them control the agenda.

Rick Warren Partners With Reader’s Digest

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., and Dr. Rick Warren, Pastor of Saddleback Valley Community Church and the author of the worldwide best seller, "The Purpose Driven Life," today announced a partnership to produce an inspirational multimedia platform called The Purpose Driven Connection.

Together the organizations will pool their international resources to produce and publish this Purpose Driven platform to help people who are seeking their purpose in life and wish to interact with others on their spiritual journeys. The platform will provide a suite of bundled multimedia tools: "The Purpose Driven Connection," a quarterly magazine; Small Group study materials delivered in DVDs, workbooks and downloadable discussion guides; and a state-of-the-art Christian social networking website.

"We are excited about this new partnership and its unprecedented potential for international impact," said Warren, who will serve as Editor-in-Chief and be heavily involved in the conception of each element. "The Purpose Driven Connection represents more than simply integrated multimedia resources; it will become a platform for a movement of people to change the world."

"We are delighted to be working with Rick Warren and the Saddleback team," said Alyce Alston, President of RDA's Home & Garden and Health & Wellness affinities. "This is one of our company's most important and far-reaching ventures ever. Together we will create a category-busting multimedia suite that will help millions of people in their daily lives, including those who already follow the Purpose Driven principles as well as seekers everywhere looking for greater fulfillment."

Enough is enough now. I saw my daughter stunned by some of her Southern Baptist relatives when they admonished her for her Obama bumper sticker. These so-called intelligent people called him a muslim and used racial slurs. I doubt she will be going to see them next visit home.

Enough is enough. It is time for them to back off.

Religious Right leaders are already rearing their heads in opposition to Obama.

The Right Wing Resurrection

It has been less than twelve hour since the historic election that saw Barack Obama become President-elect of the United States and the Democratic Party widen its margins in the House and Senate, and while we are still months away from them actually taking office, the Religious Right is already warning that their first order to business will be to persecute Christians.

..."Tony Perkins: "We are going to see, I think, unprecedented attacks against our faith through measures like the hate crimes legislation to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act," he says. "We're going to see attacks on innocent human life through the Freedom of Choice Act, trying to erase all the gains that have been made in the pro-life movement. And I think even our freedoms are going to come under attack."

...""Americans have made a grave mistake in electing Barack Obama to the presidency," Fr. Pavone wrote. "He said during the campaign that he does not know when a human being starts to have human rights. How can one govern from that starting point of ignorance? Governing is about protecting human rights; to do it successfully, you have to know where they come from, and when they begin. The President-elect has already failed that test miserably."

Fr. Pavone sounds a note of defiant confidence, declaring that the pro-life movement is winning in the culture and that "a new chapter of the pro-life movement has just begun. ...We will keep marching toward that pro-life America we seek, and won't stop until we get there."

It is time to delineate clearly between the religious aims of the churches and the business of government.

I still drive by my old church which we left several years ago. I feel some sentimentality, but mostly I feel anger at what they have become.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I thought "Guideposts" had that market covered

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[MrModerate]

2. "Helping them on their spiritual journeys . . ."

Sounds a lot like "leading them to their deaths."

But that's the job of the religionists, isn't it?

[47of74]

3. Ah, good ol' Reader's Digest...

The biggest PNAC rag out there.

[madfloridian]

4. I have not read it in years.

I did not realize that.

[47of74]

5. Don't know if they're an official arm or not, but...

I haven't read it in years either. But right before we canned our subscription to them it was pretty much all PNAC / NEOCON talking points all the time.

[madfloridian]

7. I do remember reading one several years ago and thinking...

how they were publishing stuff that seemed so wrong to me. They must have changed over to the right years ago.

[Monk06]

6. "suite of bundled multimedia tools" . Heathern money grubber. I hope software developers

are keeping an eye on the code.

[Gwendolyn]

8. They tried to make over their image into mainstream some years ago...

but I think sales have been lagging, and their base has always been religious/right wing. They can't sell overpriced books since Amazon moved in, so guess they're going back to what they've always known best. What's scary is that they really do have a foot in door in many countries and a worldwide mailing list that would make any DM marketer salivate. Yech!!!

[NNN0LHI]

9. Does anyone buy magazines these days?

I only see them in dentists offices.

Don

[MillieJo]

13. Me too.. I only look at the word game at the front..

I have never read the magazine though.

[yardwork]

10. Lynn Cheney is or was on the Readers Digest board.

[Gwendolyn]

12. She was. It's privately owned now.

The ex CEO George Grune (sp?) was, or is, George Bush's very good friend.

[JI7]

11. Reader's Digest has always leaned right haven't they ?

i once had a free subscription through something for a limited time. and it leaned conservative .

i don't know if it has always been like that but it was when i got it which was probably sometime in the last 5 years.

[47of74]

14. No, it's been like that for a real long time

No, it's been like that for a real long time, at least since the early 90s. Their favorite stories seemed to be how anything less than hanging a criminal in the public square followed by covering in fire ants was coddling or how so and so busted a union somewhere.