Pastor Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life hit the top spot on four best-seller lists this week, two weeks after an Atlanta-area woman read it to her kidnapper.
The book is the first to reach the number one spot on the best-seller lists of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Publishers Weekly-a feat called a “quadruple crown”-years after its initial publishing.
Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and his wife, Kay, have been giving away 90 percent of the book proceeds to global ministry projects, including programs to combat illiteracy, poverty and diseases like HIV/AIDS, through three foundations they established, said A. Larry Ross, a spokesman for Warren.
Religion News Service