Item: Rev. Rick Warren puts Obama, McCain on the same stage: California pastor among the most significant evangelists of his generation/L.A. Times.

More Info: fourth-largest church and reaches thousands of ministers through the Internet and crusades against poverty and AIDS. That globe-trotting work and his successful book — "The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?" — puts him at the vanguard of a movement that inspires young, socially conscious Christians. But his willingness to soft-pedal political issues once central to U.S. evangelicals, such as opposition to abortion, has opened him to criticism that he has strayed from his calling to spread the Gospel.

Question: Do you welcome this new type of Evangelical leader who's more socially conscious and less vitriolic than religious conservatives like the late Jerry Falwell?

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