Purposeful

We did Rick Warren’s “Purpose-Driven Life” program at our church a year or so back. It was interesting, though there were some definitely un-Episcopalian sorts of things, and Rick, though personable on the videos, didn’t seem like the guy I’d want up in my own pulpit.

And, frankly, the whole idea of mega-churches, as epitomized, it seems, by Warren’s Saddleback Church in south Orange County, California, give me the willies. Whether its their slickness, the apparent populist shallowness (“Fundamentalism Lite!”) of their theology, or echoes of the churches in Stranger in a Strange Land, I cannot imagine going to a church of 30,000-plus congregants.

All that said — this “New Yorker” article on Warren and Saddleback is … interesting.