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Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo points out that Christianity isn’t the only group with fundamentalists, and he notes that gender equality has roots in early church history. He argues that men intimidated by women leaders have issues with masculinity, and he believes religious leaders should speak out on political matters.

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Tony Campolo was an American sociologist, Baptist pastor, author and public speaker who advised President Bill Clinton.

Quick Facts About Tony Campolo

Notable works: The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice

About Tony Campolo

He was a leading voice in the evangelical left and often commented on religious, political and social topics. Campolo appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live, Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect and The Hour.

Quotes by Tony Campolo

I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.

Christian

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The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!

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Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Christianity

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Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

Children

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I've got some repenting to do.

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Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!

Inspirational

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Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

Bible

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I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

America

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We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

Attention

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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

America

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It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Future

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Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Institutions

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Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is…

Jesus

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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Bible

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Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do…

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When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to…

Conflict

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The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of…

Bible

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While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs…

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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people…

Catastrophe

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And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising…

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As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for…

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In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

Christian

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If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it…

Best investment

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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…

Christianity

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Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers…

Brother

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Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I…

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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies…

Communication

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“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an…

Christian

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Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect…

Adoration

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The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not…

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I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I…

Belief

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We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another.…

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There is a feminine side of God. I always knew this … It is this feminine side of God I find in…

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Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country,…

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I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Minister

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A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

Cynicism

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I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Extremism

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I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Biblical

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Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

Being

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Tony Campolo by topic

Religion (40) Jesus (27) Christianity (23) Christian (23) Bible (17) Religious (16) People (15) Evangelical (15) Church (14) Time (12) Thinking (12) Politics (12) Government (12) World (10) Scripture (10)