Open Letter to Joel Osteen
(http://www.patheos.com/Progressive-Christian/Open-Letter-to-Joel-Osteen-Greg-Garrett-05-10-2012?offset=2&max=1) Dear Joel Osteen , For some years now I've stood back and looked the other way as you preached your message of optimism and faith rewarded to tens of thousands of worshipers and to the millions of people who have bought your best-selling books, as you've become perhaps America's best-known preacher or inspirational speaker. Earlier this year The Guardian actually called you "America's Pastor," which forced me to sit up and take notice. My attention during that time has been focused largely on those preachers and traditions obsessing with sin and suffering, on the death of Jesus on the cross as the only salvation for a wicked race. And so I kind of lost sight of you, a couple of hours down the road from me in Houston. You have said that you don't like to talk about sin—who does, really?—and that you want to dwell on the positive...