{"id":3480,"date":"2006-08-22T01:09:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:10:19","slug":"why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Has Fox News Interviewed Rick Warren So Much Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several days, Fox News has highlighted Rick Warren on news articles and in television interviews. It was looking like a Rick Warren Week at Fox News. On <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170215161900\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/2006\/12\/19\/purpose-driven-life-can-rick-warren-change-world.html\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">August 11th,<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Fox headlines read, &#8220;Can Rick Warren Save the World?&#8221; A few days later another article read, Can Rick Warren Change the World? On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billoreilly.com\/show?action=viewTVShow&amp;showID=946#6\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">August 17th,<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Fox&#8217;s Bill O Reilly interviewed Warren. To wrap up the week, Fox did a special presentation Sunday evening with Warren, discussing his global peace plan.<\/p>\n<p>Calling him an &#8220;evangelical superstar&#8221; and an &#8220;inspiring figure&#8221; Fox brought Rick Warren and the <em>Purpose Driven Life <\/em>to the world&#8217;s living room. No longer is <em>Purpose Driven Life <\/em>a program just for churches and Christians &#8211; with the help of Fox News, it is becoming a program for secular and religious alike.<\/p>\n<p>Why has Fox News taken such a positive, supportive interest in Rick Warren and his book, <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em>? Is it possible it has something to do with the fact that Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corporation, the owner of Fox News, is also the owner of HarperCollins\/Zondervan, which is Warren&#8217;s publisher? In a 2004 News Corporation <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080705104720\/http:\/\/www.newscorp.com\/investor\/download\/Us3q04pr.pdf\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Earnings Report<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, HarperCollins experienced a 57% increase in revenues largely due to &#8220;unprecedented sales of <em>The Purpose Driven Life <\/em>by Rick Warren.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Rick Warren is promoting both the emerging church and contemplative spirituality and making efforts to bring about an ecumenical unity that may succeed beyond measure, the question must be asked, is Fox News being used as a catalyst for Purpose Driven and thus contemplative spirituality (a New Age, anti-biblical belief system that ultimately denies the gospel message of the Cross)?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070419234626\/http:\/\/www.cjr.org:80\/tools\/owners\/newscorp.asp\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corporation<\/span><\/strong><\/a> also owns Fox Home Entertainment, the makers of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/bestilldvd.htm\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Be Still DVD<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, which is an infomercial for contemplative prayer. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorp.com\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Murdoch&#8217;s News Corporation<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.) And thus this leads us to another question &#8230; is Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s corporation intentionally trying to bring contemplative spirituality to the world at large, or is it merely trying to capitalize on the popularity of this mystical, New Age movement, without realizing the implications? Either way, for a corporation whose yearly revenues are in the billions, much can be and is being done to escalate this spirituality, bringing it to the masses from North America to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Over the last several&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-purpose-driven-movement","wpcat-52-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Has Fox News Interviewed Rick Warren So Much Lately? - From the Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Has Fox News Interviewed Rick Warren So Much Lately?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Over the last several...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"From the Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LighthouseTrailsResearch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-08-22T05:09:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-19T20:10:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lighthouse Trails Editors\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lighthouse Trails Editors\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lighthouse Trails Editors\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a36b703d7722ce85599858df8bacc0a5\"},\"headline\":\"Why Has Fox News Interviewed Rick Warren So Much Lately?\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-08-22T05:09:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-19T20:10:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":392,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Purpose Driven\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/why-has-fox-news-interviewed-rick-warren-so-much-lately\\\/\",\"name\":\"Why Has Fox News Interviewed Rick Warren So Much Lately? 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