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This evangelist has a 'Purpose'
LAKE FOREST, Calif. — The Rev. Rick Warren — the most influential evangelist you've never heard of — has the answer to the meaning of life.

He has built an overflowing mega-church here in the mountain foothills southeast of Los Angeles....

...Warren is part of the ultra-conservative Southern Baptist Convention, and all his senior staff sign on to the SBC's doctrines, such as the literal and infallible Bible and exclusion of women as senior pastors. Yet Warren's pastor-training programs welcome Catholics, Methodists, Mormons, Jews and ordained women....