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Jan 28, 1954 San Jose, California, United States 70 years old
Christian religious leader
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About Rick Warren
- Richard Duane Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author.
- He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, in Lake Forest, California that is the sixth-largest megachurch in the United States (including multi-site churches).
- He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism.
- His subsequent book The Purpose Driven Life has sold more than 30 million copies, making Warren a New York Times bestselling author.Warren holds conservative theological views and traditional evangelical views on social issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, abstinence-only education over the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS, and embryonic stem-cell research. During the 2008 United States presidential election, Warren hosted the Civil Forum on the Presidency at his church with both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.
- Obama later sparked controversy when he asked Warren to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration in January 2009.
