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In our interview, Joel Osteen mostly steered clear of controversy. (My full take on his recession-proof message here; full transcript here). But given that he seems the very model of a modern major mega-church preacher, Osteen may raise some eyebrows with his explanation of why he’s avoided the label “evangelical.” I asked him why he…

Rev. Joel Osteen, senior pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston on April 6, 2009 visited the offices of The Wall Street Journal for an interview with Steven Waldman, Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet & WSJ.com columnist. Osteen is preaching in Yankee Stadium on April 25. BELIEFNET: What’s your core message [at Yankee Stadium] going to be? OSTEEN:…

Beliefnet has some wonderful offerings to help make your Easter season more meaningful. For the days preceding Easter, writer Kimberly Winston’s “Lent Prayers for the Light” focuses on the hope of Easter and offers tips on how to use a Protestant rosary. There is also a powerful meditation, “Bitter Journey: Way of the Cross” based…

After Rick Warren was selected by Barack Obama to give a prayer at the inauguration, attention turned to comments he made to me during an interview for Beliefnet and WSJ.com in which he appeared to equate homosexual relationships with relationships between siblings or pedophilia. A firestorm erupted. Warren now claims that he got into hot…
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