Rick Warren interview aired on Easter Sunday 2012

ABC News’ This Week featured on Easter Sunday 2012 this 18-minute exclusive interview with Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church and a shorter interview with Kay Warren, wife of Pastor Rick, with mention of her new book, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn’t Enough. Interviewer was Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) described Pastor Rick as the “most powerful religious leader in America.” While good to interview a pastor on Easter Sunday, the millions of Christians were at worship services around the country would not have seen the interview on television that aired on Sunday morning. So who woulda watched it? Good thing it’s available online for on-demand viewing too. And I’ve added links to portions of interview transcript after the jump. // [update 4/9] watch entire episode of This Week + full transcript //

Partial transcripts – text of interview with Rick Warren at ABC News Blogs:

• ‘Coarsening of our Culture’ Concerns Me – “We don’t know how to disagree without being disagreeable… you can walk hand-in-hand without seeing eye-to-eye. And what we need in our country is unity, not uniformity.”
• Rick Warren’s Easter Message: ‘When You’re Going Through Hell, You Keep Going’
• Fundamental Differences Between Mormons and Christians
• ‘Inability to Delay Gratification’ at Heart of Economic Woes
• Uproar Over Tim Tebow a Sign of Regression
• ‘Newsweek’ Exploiting Easter With Religious Cover
• ‘God Hates War, but God Loves Every Soldier’
• Ministering to Trayvon Martin Community
• Contraception Debate About ‘Greater Principle’ of Religious Freedom
• Our Church Has Lost Over 250,000 Pounds
• Don’t Worry, Dogs Go to Heaven

[disclosure: I attend Saddleback Church @ Rancho Capistrano]