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He makes people think and challenges people to get out of their comfort zone. There are not too many speakers like that these days.

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He's spoken at my wife's seminary where I've gone to listen. He's not that far left.

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That's kind of why I like him. I also like the fact that he looks for ways to combine faith and social justice, insisting that the two are not opposed (as many here like to believe) but instead are intimately related and inseparable. Pretty much the whole book of James, but that's just my opinion.

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He's spoken at my wife's seminary where I've gone to listen. He's not that far left.

He also spoke at my seminary. He said that if you don't believe that the United States is the Babylon of Revelations than you don't know how to read a Bible and aren't saved.

Also interesting the way he would say vague things. He said, "I, too, am hot on the homosexual issues!" and people started clapping for him. He failed to mention that he does not think that homosexuality is a sin, nor a result of a choice.

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"Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other."
-Tony Campolo
(Page 149, Speaking My Mind)



"I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that's my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians"
-Tony Campolo
(National Liberty Journal, 8/99)



"...what can I say to an Islamic brother who has fed the hungry, and clothed the naked? You say, "But he hasn't a personal relationship with Christ." I would argue with that. And I would say from a Christian perspective, in as much as you did it to the least of these you did it unto Christ. You did have a personal relationship with Christ, you just didn't know it."
-Tony Campolo
EVANGELICALS AND INTERFAITH COOPERATION, An Interview by Shane Claiborne



"It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it's a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?"
-Tony Campolo
EVANGELICALS AND INTERFAITH COOPERATION, An Interview by Shane Claiborne



"Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is being saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving"
-Tony Campolo
EP News Service, Oct. 4, 1985



"Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion."
-Tony Campolo
"Mystical Encounters for Christians"
www.beliefnet.com



"He saved us in order that He might begin to transform His world into the kind of world that He willed for it to be when He created it. … When Jesus saved us, He saved us to be agents of a great revolution, the end of which will come when the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God”
-Tony Campolo
"It's Friday but Sundays Coming", page 106



"Our call is to be God’s agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.”
-Tony Campolo
TEAR TIMES, “Why care for creation?” 1992



"...Isn’t God’s message to sinful humanity that He sees in each of us a divine nature of such worth that He sacrificed His own Son so that our divine potentialities might be realized? ... The hymn writer who taught us to sing “Amazing Grace” was all too ready to call himself a “wretch” ... Forgetting our divinity and over-identifying with our [Freudian] anal humanity... Erich Fromm, one of the most popular psychoanalysts of our time, recognized the diabolical social consequences that can come about when a person loses sight of his/her own divinity ...”
-Tony Campolo
"Partly Right" 1995



“What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter”
-Tony Campolo
"A Reasonable Faith" 1983 page 171



“I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person."
-Tony Campolo
"A Reasonable Faith" 1983 page 192



“There is a feminine side of God. I always knew this ... It is this feminine side of God I find in Jesus that makes me want to sing duets with Him ... Not only do I love the feminine is Jesus, but the more I know Jesus, the more I realize that Jesus loves the feminine in me. Until I accept the feminine in my humanness, there will be a part of me that cannot receive the Lord's love. ... There is that feminine side of me that must be recovered and strengthened if I am to be like Christ ... And until I feel the feminine in Jesus, there is a part of Him which I cannot identify.”
-Tony Campolo
"Carpe Diem: Seize the Day", 1994, pages 85-88




"going to heaven is like going to Philadelphia....There are many ways....It doesn't make any difference how we go there. We all end up in the same place."
-Tony Campolo
"Carpe Diem: Seize the Day", 1994, pages 85-88



"When in fact we live in a society that makes life hell for gays and lesbians, this community has got to stand up and say, 'We're on your side as you struggle for dignity,' and, 'Yes, we will defy anybody who says otherwise, even if we have to go to Disneyland to prove it.'"
-Tony Campolo
"Campolo: Opposition to women preachers evidence of demonic influence"
Jun 27, 2003, By Gregory Tomlin,Baptist Press



"On the other hand, we are hard-pressed to find any biblical basis for condemning deep love commitments between homosexual Christians, as long as those commitments are not expressed in sexual intercourse."
-Tony Campolo
"20 Hot Potatoes Christians Are Afraid To Touch", page 117



"I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians."
-Tony Campolo
Charlie Rose show on January 24, 1997



Campolo has said, “If I am found to be in error, I’m ready either to recant or to say that I don’t belong in the evangelical tradition anymore.”
I'll assume your resignation letter is in the mail?

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Most of these quotes are jaw dropping, but what do you disagree with about the gay ones? If two people truly love one another but are not lustful or sexual, how is that a sin?

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He's spoken at my wife's seminary where I've gone to listen. He's not that far left.

He also spoke at my seminary. He said that if you don't believe that the United States is the Babylon of Revelations than you don't know how to read a Bible and aren't saved.

Also interesting the way he would say vague things. He said, "I, too, am hot on the homosexual issues!" and people started clapping for him. He failed to mention that he does not think that homosexuality is a sin, nor a result of a choice.

Do you have a link for this, by any chance?

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He's spoken at my wife's seminary where I've gone to listen. He's not that far left.

He also spoke at my seminary. He said that if you don't believe that the United States is the Babylon of Revelations than you don't know how to read a Bible and aren't saved.

Also interesting the way he would say vague things. He said, "I, too, am hot on the homosexual issues!" and people started clapping for him. He failed to mention that he does not think that homosexuality is a sin, nor a result of a choice.

Do you have a link for this, by any chance?

I guess, more specifically, his wife, Peggy, is a gay-rights activist, and he willingly sits by her side at rallies and events.

Here is one link about it:

http://www.wfn.org/2010/07/msg00078.html

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Interesting article, sounds like compromise has crept in. On a side note, this quote in the article struck me funny : Tony, who was present to hear her address, is a well-known evangelical preacher whose work focuses on simple living and ending global poverty. Didn't Jesus say that the poor will always be amongst us? I'm not saying we shouldn't help the poor, we're in fact commanded to, but to have a goal to end something that Jesus said will always be here seems futile.

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Based on things I've read, he and his wife disagree on that issue. He stands by her despite that, which is appropriate.

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I honestly haven't kept up with TC in over a decade I first heard of him on Focus on the Family when "Its Friday but Sunday's Coming" was played about 15 years ago on there. My in laws also had a video of him, and he seemed solid back then. The only thing before this thread I had heard was he had become a founder of the group Sojourners and the "Red Letter Christians" with Shane Claiborne and others. Also, Palmer Theological Seminary, where TC graduated and teaches at, from what I've read is a liberal school.

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I honestly haven't kept up with TC in over a decade I first heard of him on Focus on the Family when "Its Friday but Sunday's Coming" was played about 15 years ago on there. My in laws also had a video of him, and he seemed solid back then. The only thing before this thread I had heard was he had become a founder of the group Sojourners and the "Red Letter Christians" with Shane Claiborne and others. Also, Palmer Theological Seminary, where TC graduated and teaches at, from what I've read is a liberal school.

Is this Jim Wallis' group? if so TC has gone really radically to the left, Wallis is a Marxist. I remember Tony Campolo when I was a kid back in the mid 80's, what happened to this dude?

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I appreciate that he has challenged my thinking in a couple of areas. Sometimes we need that badly - as many are prone to just believe what we've been told (by our pastors, other Christians, etc). But, that doesn't mean that I agree with him on all of his conclusions.

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I appreciate that he has challenged my thinking in a couple of areas. Sometimes we need that badly - as many are prone to just believe what we've been told (by our pastors, other Christians, etc). But, that doesn't mean that I agree with him on all of his conclusions.

You've kind of contradicted yourself here. You disagree with people being told what to believe by their pastors and other Christians yet you're ok with Tony Campolo telling you what to believe? I'm not sure why we need people to change our thinking either. I mean, why don't we just read the bible? It's the infallible Word of God and it never changes. It always stays the same and is never out-dated. I think we can get really caught up in all this other STUFF and we forget that all we need is God's Word.