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Haiti: God’s Love is Greater

Tony Campolo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:00:37 +0000

By now you have heard that there was a major earthquake in Haiti yesterday, which brought much of Port-au-Prince to the ground and also devastated other areas where our ministries work. The few colleagues I’ve heard from are alright, but…

I’m the Older Brother

Tony Campolo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:00:35 +0000

When it comes to President Obama’s stimulus package and its provisions to help those Americans who are having great difficulty paying their home mortgages, I have come to realize that I’m like the older brother in the story of the…

The Perils of Well-Meaning But Short-Sighted Generosity

Tony Campolo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:00:42 +0000

Rick Warren, the most prominent evangelical pastor of our day, has established a highly successful program arranging teams from his church to help specific villages in Africa. Given the effectiveness of his organizational skills and the extensive direct involvement that…

Another Reason for Being a Red Letter Christian

Tony Campolo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:40:03 +0000

With the resignation of Richard Cizik as vice president for government affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, we have one more reason why many of us are calling ourselves Red Letter Christians instead of evangelicals. We hold to the…

The Sad Truth about the Surge

Tony Campolo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:55:57 +0000

In a recent conversation I had about the coming election, a friend reiterated the campaign rhetoric that the “surge” in Iraq has worked, and that Barack Obama ought to admit that John McCain was right in advocating the surge long…

Energy, Consumerism, and the Economic Crisis

Tony Campolo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:15:32 +0000

Last year, America spent $700 billion on oil imported from the Middle East. That figure is familiar because it is almost the exact amount of money that the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, requested from Congress to buy up securities…

Moving the Abortion Debate Beyond Partisan Purists

Tony Campolo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:59:14 +0000

In books and speeches, I have often said that God is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. I have contended that to make either party "The God Party" is idolatry. This, however, does not mean that Christians should abandon political activism. It has been said that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Consequently, I have long called for Christians to be involved in both political parties, striving to be the "leaven" that [...]

Pro-Life Democrats Call for an Abortion Reduction Plank

Tony Campolo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:05:20 +0000

As a pro-life Democrat, and a member of the party's platform committee I will be pressing for the inclusion of an abortion reduction plank in this year's platform. Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, recently unveiled the organization's "95-10 Initiative," which she believes could reduce abortions by 95 percent over the next 10 years. While I am not that optimistic I do believe that abortions could be reduced significantly if we would address the economic [...]

U.S. Foreign Policy Versus the Great Commission

Tony Campolo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:34:40 +0000

Samuel Huntington, the Harvard political scientist and the author of The Clash of Civilizations, contends that unless things change, we are facing an era marked by religious wars.

Just about every military struggle between 1945 and 1995 was over political-economic ideologies. This was true of revolutions in Latin America and Southeast Asia led by Leninists and Maoists trying to establish Communist regimes, or by the CIA endeavoring to overthrow governments that [...]

Exciting SBC Alternative Not Without Shortcomings

Tony Campolo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:19:24 +0000

During the closing days of January, more than 15,000 Baptists from 30 different Baptist denominations gathered together at the Convention Center in Atlanta. Although all Baptist groups were invited to join in what was called The New Baptist Covenant, official representatives from the largest Baptist group in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, were conspicuously absent. [...]

A Proposal for “Illegal Aliens”

Tony Campolo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:05:02 +0000

The Hebrew Scriptures clearly call for the children of Israel to make room for the alien. The Israelites are reminded that they, too, were once aliens in a strange and distant land.

[For the Lord your God] …Who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of [...]

Rumblings from the New Baptist Covenant

Tony Campolo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:57:53 +0000

They came to the Georgia World Congress Center by the thousands. They represented thirty different Baptist groups from across the nation, along with an array of representatives from Baptist groups from abroad. This gathering, held January 30 to February 1, 2008, marked the historic beginning of what is being called The New Baptist Covenant. This is not a new "super" denomination, but rather, is an association of separate Baptist denominations that are committing to work together to further [...]

A Cure for Burnouts

Tony Campolo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:32:28 +0000

Far too often, activists do little to nurture their souls. Consequently, they "burn out." Ignoring the need for spiritual revitalization to sustain their zeal on behalf of the poor and oppressed, they wear out and fade into oblivion. Often those who were one-time dynamic spokespersons for social justice while living out countercultural values become exhausted from working hard with very little sense of accomplishment. Becoming cynical, they sometimes say disparaging things about those who [...]

Stan Guthrie’s Red Letter Blues

Tony Campolo — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:41:09 +0000

In response to Stan Guthrie's article in the October 2007 Christianity Today, "When Red Is Blue: Why I Am Not A Red Letter Christian," Tony Campolo wrote the following open letter as a response.

Dear Stan,

I have to say, "You got us right!" You said:

Though I [...]