Remember When Rick Warren Got Churches in America to Actually Be United?

It shouldn’t have worked. Getting 12,000 American churches — Baptist and Lutheran and Episcopal and Reformed and Pentecostal — to read the same book, preach the same sermons and organize their congregations around the same forty-day study at the same time? That’s the kind of thing that sounds like a fever dream from a denominational committee, not something that actually happens. But in the fall of 2002, Rick Warren published a small purple book with a question on the cover that cut