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Portrait of Tony Campolo

Tony Campolo

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A pastor’s reflections flow through these lines, blending faith‑based optimism with a keen eye on societal issues. The collection showcases his ability to speak plainly about complex moral landscapes.

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Anthony Campolo Jr. was an American sociologist, Baptist pastor, author, public speaker, and spiritual advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Campolo was an influential leader in the evangelical left.

Quick Facts About Tony Campolo

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

About Tony Campolo

Anthony Campolo Jr. was an American sociologist, Baptist pastor, author, public speaker, and spiritual advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Campolo was an influential leader in the evangelical left. Campolo was a popular commentator on religious, political, and social issues, and had been a guest on programs such as The Colbert Report, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live, Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect and The Hour.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Tony Campolo

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

Children

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Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Christianity

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The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!

Glorious

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Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

Blood

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

Inspirational

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I've got some repenting to do.

Feel

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

Christian

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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Being faithful

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There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.

Keeping

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My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Citizen

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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Career

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A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Cases

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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

Bible

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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

Abortion

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If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

Being human

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Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way…

Bible

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Ambivalence

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But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least…

Children

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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in…

Choices

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What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political…

Democrat

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There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian…

Christian

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We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one…

About

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There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is…

Given

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“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or…

Christianity

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It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus,…

Agree

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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right…

Available

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Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let…

Car

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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one…

Agree

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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy…

Believe

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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the…

Believe

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Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of…

Behavior

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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,…

Believe

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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.…

Accepting

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

Accepting

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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Capital punishment

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I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author…

Bible

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Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Church

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The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Blessing

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Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

Art

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Tony Campolo by topic

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