Rick Warren on Leadership, Politics
30 October 2008
Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren gave a compelling 20-minute talk at the 2006 TED conference on leadership and living a meaningful life. Saddleback has over 22,000 members (it is the fourth largest church in the U.S.) and Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
I watched this video with a few students last week and we were impressed with his easy presence and lack of pretense, not to mention that he now lives off only 10% of his income and gives away the remaining 90%. He has used both his new-found affluence and influence to try to do some remarkable things–like work toward solutions for poverty and the global AIDS problem. As this profile in the Wall Street Journal indicates, Rick Warren is not a fan of government solutions: ”There is only one way to get people out of poverty and it’s not charity. It’s jobs.” Take a few minutes to enjoy this talk.
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