Is the shine coming off Saint Rick? In the hours since Rick Warren granted God-o-Meter am interview on Sunday evening, a day after his Saddleback Civil Forum with John McCain and Barack Obama, GOM has been struck by Warren’s steadfast refusal to apologize for misleading Forum viewer’s about McCain being sealed inside a cone of…

In an interview with God-o-Meter on the day after his Saddleback Civil Forum with John McCain and Barack Obama, Rev. Rick Warren sounded pretty dubious about Barack Obama’s and the Democrats’ chances of making inroads among evangelicals. The full interview will run Monday on Beliefnet. Here’s a preview: Before last night, McCain had been widely…

God-o-Meter caught up with someone very close to the Obama campaign and its faith outreach effort late this week and asked about the campaign’s thinking going into this Saturday’s Saddleback candidate forum. On background, here’s what it was told: The most important factor coming into Saddleback is Senator Obama’s level of comfort in forums like…

The Matthew 25 Network, a faithy political action committee founded by John Kerry’s former religious outreach director, will begin airing this pro-family Obama ad during Saturday night’s candidate forum with Rick Warren at Saddleback Church:The Matthew 25 Network describes the ad as entirely positive. And it is. But by broadcasting a squeaky clean family man…

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