{"id":4849,"date":"2014-01-24T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T11:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2018-07-20T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:55:11","slug":"rick-warrens-daniel-plan-weighs-in-too-light-on-the-book-of-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2014\/01\/rick-warrens-daniel-plan-weighs-in-too-light-on-the-book-of-daniel.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Warren&#8217;s Dieting Plan Weighs In: Too Light on the Book of Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irnusaradio.com\/our-programs\/chuck-morse-speaks\">Chuck Morse of IRN USA News<\/a> interviewed me on the radio. (You can listen to that conversation <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.irnusaradio.com\/cms\/012314.mp3\">here<\/a>.) Actually the segment was really more of a conversation with Chuck and his producer-partner Andre Traversa about mega church pastor Rick Warren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielplan.com\/\">Daniel Plan<\/a> diet initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Daniel Plan has been going strong: supposedly more than 15,000 people have lost more than 250,000 pounds in just over a year of the diet&#8217;s life; and, since the release of Warren&#8217;s latest book <em>The Daniel Plan: 40 Days To A Healthier Life<\/em> in December of last year, this &#8220;biblically inspired&#8221; dieting plan seems to have captured the American church&#8217;s imagination in much the same way that Warren&#8217;s devotional <em>The Purpose-Driven Life<\/em> did back in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The radio show, &#8220;Chuck Morse Speaks,&#8221; invited me on after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/5\/kellner-yes-bible-can-be-mined-for-health-principl\/\">an article in <em>The Washington Times<\/em> by reporter Mark Kellner<\/a> taking me and Rob Goodman (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/\"><em>Religion Dispatches<\/em><\/a>) to task for the suggestion that Warren bases his diet plan on a somewhat disingenuous (or, in Goodman&#8217;s terms &#8220;unethical&#8221;) reading of Scripture. If you missed my original blog post inspired by Goodman&#8217;s insightful article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/culture\/6123\/the_bible_is_not_a_diet_plan\/\">&#8220;The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan<\/a>,&#8221; you can catch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDIQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beliefnet.com%2Fcolumnists%2Ffellowshipofsaintsandsinners%2F2012%2F08%2Fis-rick-warrens-daniel-plan-just-selfish-bible-reading.html&amp;ei=Qk7iUumlLezgsATnyYHYBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqmNTvZxMwYDE_yOOyOwqiNF7fcw&amp;sig2=wmadbYrBR4j2WYQ_HUkcCw&amp;bvm=bv.59930103,d.cWc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Talk radio host Morse is known for &#8220;his free-wheeling and insightful intellectual style&#8221; and &#8220;was named to the list of Heavy 100 Radio Talk Show Hosts by <em>Talkers Magazine;&#8221;<\/em> he has &#8220;developed a reputation for inviting guests to express opinions on all sides of issues.&#8221; His guests have included over the years Pat Buchanan, Jack Kemp, Pete Peterson, Caspar Weinburger, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinum, Alan Dershowitz and Geraldo Riviera.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Chuck Morse of IRN USA News interviewed me on the radio. (You can listen to that conversation here.) Actually the segment was really more of a conversation with Chuck and his producer-partner Andre Traversa about mega church pastor Rick Warren&#8217;s Daniel Plan diet initiative. The Daniel Plan has been going strong: supposedly more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,119],"tags":[2029,2036,2030,2033,2034,406,408,2031,2028,2035,2032],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-and-culture","category-church","tag-chuck-morse","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-irn-usa-news","tag-new-years-dieting","tag-religion-dispatches","tag-rick-warren","tag-saddleback-church","tag-self-help-books","tag-the-daniel-plan","tag-washington-times","tag-weight-loss-plans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rick Warren&#039;s Dieting Plan Weighs In: Too Light on the Book of Daniel - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2014\/01\/rick-warrens-daniel-plan-weighs-in-too-light-on-the-book-of-daniel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rick Warren&#039;s Dieting Plan Weighs In: Too Light on the Book of Daniel - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday Chuck Morse of IRN USA News interviewed me on the radio. 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