Christianity Today’s Sarah Pulliam has a fascinating interview with Rick Warren, the megachurch pastor and megabook author.

Warren has been laying low, declining interview requests for months, so the interview is something of a coup.

You can read it here.

My favorite Warren quote regarding humanitarian efforts: “We’ll work [with] anybody on areas we have to find agreement with. This is a thing that everybody has to learn. For instance, there are people who don’t want to work with Catholics because they don’t believe in any birth control. Well fine. I actually admire them for their conviction. It’s not my conviction. There are 600,000 [I think this should be 600 million] Buddhists, 800,000 [I think he meant 800 million] Hindus, and a billion Muslims, and over 2 billion Christians. If you say that people of faith cannot do humanitarian care because of their beliefs, you just ruled out most of the world. The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

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