Eugene F. Rivers, 3d is an American

United States

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 activist

Activism

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, and Pentecostal minister

Minister of religion

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 based in Boston, Massachusetts.

He is Pastor of the Azusa Christian Community, co-founder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition and co-chair of the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation. He has appeared on national television shows, including Hardball with Chris Matthews

Hardball with Chris Matthews

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 with Michael Rogers

Michael Rogers (activist)

Michael Rogers is the Managing Director and partner of Raw Story Media, Inc. publishers of The Raw Story, an American fundraiser, blogger and gay rights activist in the Washington, D.C.-area best known for his activity in outing closeted gay politicians who actively oppose gay rights...

 defending Rick Warren

Rick Warren

Richard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian minister and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States...

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He also the Special Advisor to Bishop Charles Blake for Save Africa's Children.

External links

• Boston Phoenix: Eugene Rivers’s moment: Under fire for challenging Jesse Jackson, the street minister says the real challenge is to work with the Bushies in crafting a new, post-civil-rights agenda Date of publication uncertain
• Christianity Today. Feb. 5, 1996, CT Classic: Separate and Equal - Martin Luther King dreamed of an integrated society. Boston minister Eugene Rivers thinks it was the wrong dream, by Wendy Murray Zoba
• Religion and Ethnics Newsweekly, November 11, 2005, Episode no. 911: Lucky Severson's interview with the Reverend Eugene Rivers in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Boston Phoenix, July 17 - 24, 1997 - The Future of Boston - The Reverend Eugene Rivers
• The Boston Strategy to Prevent Youth Violence - Reverend Eugene Rivers