{"id":361,"date":"2009-01-11T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/rick-warren-gives-sanctuary-to.html"},"modified":"2009-01-11T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T17:46:39","slug":"rick-warren-gives-sanctuary-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/rick-warren-gives-sanctuary-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Warren Gives Sanctuary to Anti-Gay Episcopal Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a bit more grist for the Rick Warren debate. &nbsp; Just as he took the side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-01-07\/the-truth-about-rick-warren-in-africa\/1\/\">anti-gay bishops in Africa<\/a>, Rick Warren <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/displaced_angli.html\">has welcomed the anti-gay churches in America<\/a> who are choosing to leave the Episcopal church only because of the wider church&#8217;s inclusions of Gay people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; [The Episcopal Church has] already considered me an adversary after partnering on projects with Kolini, Orumbi, and Nzimbi, and writing the TIME bio on Akinola. &nbsp;But since last summer&#8230; I&#8217;ve been on Gene Robinson and other&#8217;s attack list for my position on gay marriage. &#8230;.[Our] brothers and sisters here at St. James in Newport Beach lost their California State Supreme Court case to keep their property.&nbsp;We stand in solidarity with them, and with all orthodox, evangelical Anglicans. I offer the campus of Saddleback Church to any Anglican congregation who need a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation in south Orange County.- Rick Warren<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/12\/melissa-etheridge-gets-it-righ.html\">Brian Mclaren and Melissa Etheridge<\/a> think of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a bit more grist for the Rick Warren debate. &nbsp; Just as he took the side of the anti-gay bishops in Africa, Rick Warren has welcomed the anti-gay churches in America who are choosing to leave the Episcopal church only because of the wider church&#8217;s inclusions of Gay people.&nbsp; &#8230; [The Episcopal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rick Warren Gives Sanctuary to Anti-Gay Episcopal Churches - Progressive Revival<\/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\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/rick-warren-gives-sanctuary-to.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rick Warren Gives Sanctuary to Anti-Gay Episcopal Churches - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is just a bit more grist for the Rick Warren debate. &nbsp; 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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