Recently, contemplative/emerging proponent Rick Warren stated that he was not interested in politics or in being a diplomat. That statement was said on the heels of his visit to Syria where he met with Syria’s president as well as the Grand Mufti (partly to discuss his P.E.A.C.E. Plan). Shortly after his trip to Syria, possible presidential candidate, Barack Obama, came to Saddleback as a speaker for the AIDS convention. According to The Hill news (news pertaining to the US Congress), another potential presidential candidate showed up on Warren’s doorstep recently:
Sen. John Kerry (Mass.), who is also contemplating running for the 2008 Democratic nomination, has been active, too. In September, he gave a speech on “service and faith” at the conservative Pepperdine University. He has tapped Shaun Casey, an associate professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary, to advise him on religious outreach.
Kerry also recently held a dinner at his D.C. home with evangelical leaders and traveled out to California for a four-hour meeting with Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, who wrote the bestseller, “The Purpose-Driven Life.” (Clinton hires faith guru )
