{"id":3288,"date":"2007-03-08T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:32:37","slug":"the-abcs-of-rick-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/the-abcs-of-rick-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ABC’s OF RICK WARREN"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMMENTARY BY PAUL PROCTOR
\nNews With Views<\/p>\n

“I guess it helps to have powerful friends at The Council on Foreign Relations, because the Purpose Driven Pastor, Rick Warren, has once again been puff pieced by the mainstream media – this time at ABC News – with an article subtitled: “Pastor’s Unconventional Approach Inspires Some, Alienates Others.”<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, that title is about as hard-hitting as ABC News gets in this little dialectic exercise – just enough to make you to want read the piece – and lame enough to make you wish you hadn’t. This is controlled opposition at it finest, friends – guaranteed to neutralize naysayers by boring the as-yet-uninformed with all the trivial and underwhelming aspects of the Purpose Driven movement till everyone’s sick of the subject and thoroughly convinced it is all much ado about nothing.” Click here to read this entire commentary.<\/a><\/p>\n

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