The Reader’s Digest Association is dropping its high-profile joint venture with TV evangelist Rick Warren, due to a lack of subscriptions to the Purpose Driven Connection, The Post has learned.
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Nov 04 2009
Reader’s Digest splits with Purpose Driven pastor Rick Warren
Mar 26 2009
Purpose Driven magazine debuts – Rick Warren is the new Oprah
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP)–Rick Warren has joined with Reader’s Digest Association to produce a quarterly magazine called “Purpose Driven Connection,” which is intended to reach people who aren’t connected to churches.
“PDC magazine is all about transformation, not merely information. That’s what sets this magazine apart from many others. It is the purpose behind every word,” said Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of The Purpose Driven Life.
The premier issue, which debuted in January, has exceeded expectations in sales, Larry Ross, a spokesman for Warren, told Baptist Press.
“Rick Warren is a big visionary, and this is one of the most ambitious projects he has ever undertaken,” Ross said, noting that Warren serves as editor in chief of the project. “… Gallup and Barna have both done studies that show that 19 percent of the U.S. population, about 59 million people, has read The Purpose Driven Life.
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Feb 05 2009
Rick Warren’s New Magazine, Purpose Driven Connection, Promotes the New Global Spirituality
When Lighthouse Trails reported in November of 2006 that New Age leader Marianne Williamson came to Rick Warren’s defense regarding his strategy to bring about global peace, tying it in with global meditation, it became clear to some that it was just a matter of time before Rick Warren came out of the “new spirituality” closet. That day is much closer now with the launching of the premier edition of his new magazine, the Purpose Driven Connection.
Read the entire article – whether or not you agree with the outcome, Rick is building a pretty sizable denomination empire.
