AGE: 55
OCCUPATION: Evangelist
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1
PRO: The pastor transformed himself into a higher-power broker with last year's election, drawing both candidates to his Saddleback Church. He's also apparently one of the few businessmen with any faith left in the media he launched his own magazine earlier this year.
CON: His invocation at the Obama Inauguration became the first controversy of the new Administration, thanks in part to Warren's support of California's Proposition 8.