Warren Saddles Up With Blair's Faith Foundation

Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren has linked up with the Vatican's most famous convert Tony Blair and his ecumenical Faith Foundation calling for "acts for global good..."

The vision and values of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation are desperately needed today when every major issue in our world is influenced for good or harm by faith factors. It would be foolish to ignore how religious conviction impacts personal and national identity, poverty and education, extremism and reconciliation, disease and development, peace and progress. In any effort to help people learn to live and work together, we must engage the vast networks, resources, wisdom, and influence of the faith communities. My friends, Tony Blair is uniquely prepared with the gifts of temperament, knowledge, experience, leadership, and global respect essential for a task this great. I honestly don’t know of anyone better suited for this challenge. It’s why I agreed to serve on the Advisory Board. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s potential for doing good is staggering."

-Rick Warren Saddleback Church Purpose Driven Network P.E.A.C.E. Coalition

From the Faith Foundation website:

NEW YORK, May 30 2008 - Tony Blair launched his Faith Foundation with a call for the creation of a new coalition to harness the moral leadership of people of faith to do good and to show the relevance of faith to the challenges of the modern world.

The goals of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation are:

• to promote respect and understanding between the major religions;
• to make the case for faith as a force for good;
• to encourage inter-faith initiatives to tackle global poverty and conflict.
  

Both Warren and Blair particpated in the Davos World Economic Forum's “Faith and Modernization forum where Warren stated, "The future of the world is not secularism but religious pluralism..."

Warren's call for global pluralism certainly is gaining momentum.

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