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  Bridges-Across: Tony & Peggy Campolo
Tony and I agree as he has said, that a homosexual orientation is not chosen and we believe that homosexual people should not have to be in the closet to be part of the body of Christ.
Tony and I agree that the term homosexual lifestyle without an S on the end is a misnomer and should never be used because there are many homosexual lifestyles just as there are many heterosexual lifestyles.
Tony and I were riding in the back seat of a car, headed for one of his speaking engagements in a western town.
www.bridges-across.org /ba/campolo.htm   (6695 words)

  
  Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo | The Progressive
Campolo opposes abortion and gay marriage, but believes that "social justice is the primary purpose of government." And he faults the Democrats for doing a poor job of framing the issues in 2004.
Campolo was an outspoken foe of U.S. policy in Central America in the 1980s, and in 1995 he joined Wallis's Call to Renewal, which fights poverty and racism and strives for peace.
Campolo says he is "very upset that the evangelical community is not raising the kind of questions about this war in Iraq that should be raised." That war should not be considered a "just war," according to the criteria set by John Calvin and Saint Augustine, Campolo says.
www.progressive.org /?q=mag_camp0805   (1908 words)

  
 Tony Campolo 1935 - ?
Campolo is highly critical of fundamentalism and is an important member of the egalitarian organization Christians for Biblical Equality.
Tony Campolo the sociologist, is infatuated with charismania, who thinks Mother Teresa is great saint, even though she is Hindu in her testimony, and of course this man is a major espouser of the 'social gospel', in fact he majors in the social gospel.
Campolo apparently would deem as evil "the majority of Christians of all ages who have held to the teaching of the Scripture on this topic," Chapman stated.
www.gospelgrace.com /falseprophets/tonycampolo/TonyCampolo.html   (958 words)

  
 Tony Campolo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tony Campolo is an alumnus of, and currently a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St Davids, Pennsylvania.
Tony Campolo contends that homosexuality is a sin in practice, though not in orientation -- though he also argues that gay people living together in a committed, sexually active relationship, is morally preferable to less than monogamous relationships.
Tony Campolo speech at LeTourneau University, 9/28/2005, 1 of 2
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Campolo   (1388 words)

  
 Tavis Smiley . Archives . Tony Campolo . March 10, 2008 | PBS
Tony Campolo is professor emeritus at Pennsylvania's Eastern University and founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, an organization that develops schools and social programs in various third world countries and North American cities.
Campolo: Well, he or she is somebody whose beliefs are very traditional in a sense.
Campolo: The abortion issue is a big one, but this should be noted: both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both committed themselves to reducing abortions in America.
www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200803/20080310_campolo.html   (1531 words)

  
 Profile - Tony Campolo
Anthony “Tony” Campolo is known for having a strong impact on audiences, giving messages are peppered with challenging quotes.
Campolo attended Eastern College in Pennsylvania, where he is now both a professor of Sociology and director of the Urban Studies department.
Campolo is an associate pastor at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia.
www.christianbook.com /html/authors/241.html   (423 words)

  
 Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
Campolo criticized the way right-wing evangelicalism aligned itself with the anti-gay marriage and pro-war stance of the Republican Party in the last election, while failing to lobby for more tax cuts and welfare benefits for the poor.
Campolo stressed that the blurring of political and religious spheres is at present a purely American phenomenon.
Campolo said he realizes his words may alienate portions of the worldwide Baptist family, but he sees it as his duty as a Christian and as a sociologist to speak out.
www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=5613   (582 words)

  
 Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo is professor emeritus of sociology of Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania.
Yes, Campolo is a perfect example of someone who is influencing minds and producing “a new kind of Christian.” I will quote Campolo on a number of issues so that you will be able to examine his ideas in comparison with what the Bible teaches.
Tony Campolo says his personal encounter began when he discovered Christ through a practice known as “centering prayer.” Though not found in the Bible, the ritual of centering prayer is a pillar of Eastern mysticism.
www.understandthetimes.org /commentary/c58_pf.shtml   (1946 words)

  
 Christianaudio Podcast » Tony Campolo
Highlighting the needs of the world, Tony begs young people to take seriously the call of Christ and to respond to those needs with all that they are and all that they have.
Tony contends that to be Christian, is to be called to passionate living marked by intensive commitments and total awareness to the greatness of God’s provisions for us.
Tony explains what the church should be and how we can make it into what God has ordained for it to be.
podcast.christianaudio.com /?cat=5   (547 words)

  
 GayChristian.Net: The Gay Christian Network
Tony Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern College in suburban Philadelphia, is a well-known and highly respected voice in evangelical Christianity today.
Campolo is an ordained Baptist minister, a popular speaker, author of numerous books, and founder of a ministry which reaches out to poor and hurting people worldwide in the name of Jesus.
Campolo's position on homosexuality is conservative: he believes that the Bible forbids all homosexual activity.
www.gaychristian.net /campolos.php   (377 words)

  
 Tony Campolo | Letters to a Young Evangelical
A tireless crusader for human rights and to the eradication of world poverty, Campolo is a "Red Letter" Christian – he reminds us that when Jesus spoke, he spoke of social justice.
Tony Campolo is professor emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, having previously served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Campolo is a frequent media commentator, is President and Founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE), has authored over thirty books, and is ordained in the American Baptist Church.
www.letterstoayoungevangelical.com   (338 words)

  
 rhettsmith.com: Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo Tony Campolofor decades has been a force to be reckoned with.
Campolo follows in a long line of theologians who have proclaimed a message of the "social gospel" which found it's root in Walter Rauschenbusch in the late 1800's and early 1900's in New York's Hell's Kitchen.
The main concern as Campolo stated on Sunday is to take care of another's basic needs first, and to keep the great commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:31).
www.rhettsmith.com /blog/archives/2004/12/tony_campolo.html   (490 words)

  
 Tony Campolo
Campolo is no stranger to this controversy, yet he continues to expand it, not reduce it.
Tony Campolo is a Change Agent whose vision is to change America’s churches, with radical new ideas that are not based from the Bible or its principles.
Campolo actually affirms that we have divine nature in us and that is why God's Son was sacrificed, ignoring that it is the sin that indwells men (Rom.6-7) that He went to the cross for.
www.letusreason.org /Popteac27.htm   (5742 words)

  
 The New Man Report: Tony Campolo Responds
Tony raised a very important point in saying that we (and that means me!) need to first go to our brother alone, then with witnesses, before we going public with an offense.
Tony Compolo should be ashamed of himself for saying that he is a conservative on these issues and then not stand on the Word of God.
Tony Campolo was and is wrong in what he said, and Homosexials do choose to be homosexials just as alcoholics chose to drink.
www.newmanmag.com /newmanreport/2007/10/tony-campolo-responds.html   (5604 words)

  
 Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo, well-known Christian sociologist, media commentator, speaker and author, challenged Abilene Christian University students to a life of service in the first Chapel service of the spring semester Monday.
Campolo is professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern College in St. Davids, Penn. He previously served for 10 years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
Campolo is a media commentator on religious, social and political issues, having appeared on programs including Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show, and CNN News.
www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2003/030113_campolo.html   (285 words)

  
 Tony Campolo Tackles Interfaith Relationships at Baptist Congress
Tony Campolo urged the churches to encourage young people to take the initiative to reach out to people of other faiths.
Campolo emphasised that even when two religions make the basic statements of faith stating that their religion was the only way to salvation then this would obviously cause offence to people saying the otherwise.
However, Campolo did also go on to say that it had to be recognised that there was a clear difference between preaching hate and simply standing up for your personal convictions.
www.christiantoday.com /article/tony.campolo.tackles.interfaith.relationships.at.baptist.congress./3560.htm   (701 words)

  
 Tony Campolo - religious cults and sects
Campolo, an ordained Baptist minister with a doctorate in sociology from Temple University, is working hard to build bridges over any gulfs that may exist between the two branches of Christianity.
On the subject of homosexual marriages, Dr. Campolo said he believes gays and lesbians should be guaranteed the same civil rights as any citizen.
Tony Campolo, one of American Christianity's most well-known evangelists, is doing the Gospel of Jesus Christ a grave disservice with misinformation, unscriptural political analysis and dangerously bad theology.
www.apologeticsindex.org /c71.html   (1639 words)

  
 Tony Campolo Turns God's Grace Into Lewdness
Tony Campolo is professor emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
Campolo is a media commentator on religious, social and political matters, having guested on television programs like Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show and CNN News.
Campolo is deceived and does not see the bad company of a homosexual which is a seriously wicked influence upon anyone, especially children (Proverbs 22:6).
www.atruechurch.info /tonycampolo.html   (1633 words)

  
 FaithfulReader.com - SPEAKING MY MIND by Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo has been speaking his mind for so long and with such candor that a good many evangelicals have questioned his continued identification with their camp.
Campolo describes himself as "someone who works hard at trying to ferret out the truth about what God is doing in the church and in the world, and the part we have in that work…I have not finished thinking about the topics addressed in this book.
Rather than maintaining that his is the final word on a matter, you get the impression that he sees himself as a pilgrim on a journey he has taken so many times before that he believes it's his responsibility to assist fellow pilgrims who are still struggling to find their way.
www.faithfulreader.com /reviews/0849918170.asp   (423 words)

  
 Tony Campolo: Evangelical aids the poor, and presidents too
Campolo, a professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University who also served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, has breathed life into his ministry by advancing social causes for much of his career as a clergyman, author, educator and speaker.
To the left of many of his contemporaries, Campolo firmly believes that a woman’s place is in the pulpit and that gays should not be ostracized by church leaders, but accepted.
Campolo remembered his now deceased mother who was unable to fulfill her desire to be a minister.
www.religionnewsblog.com /11836/tony-campolo-evangelical-aids-the-poor-and-presidents-too   (1901 words)

  
 Tony Campolo: The church must see Jesus in 'the least of these'
SALT LAKE CITY­­When Tony Campolo talks about being a peacemaker, he recalls an uncomfortable encounter with a dirty, stinking, homeless man on a Philadelphia street.
Campolo is an American Baptist preacher and professor of sociology at Eastern College in St. David's, Penn.
Campolo reminded the crowd God demands stillness so His Spirit may possess a person and absorb all the things that make for war and violence and replace it with such love.
www.baptiststandard.com /1998/6_24/pages/campolo.html   (940 words)

  
 BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too: Tony Campolo on women preachers and sodomy...
If Campolo is preaching in chapel services of Christian colleges and seminaries around the country, this is a position that holds spiritual authority and ought only to go to those men whose lives and families--including wives--conform to the biblical requirements outlined in 1Timothy 3 and Titus 1.
How exactly is Tony Campolo a false teacher when he is spending his time traveling to Haiti to see what he can do to find food and shelter for the thousands of children and adults who are starving to death.
I suppose if while Tony is trying to save the lives of these children and show them the love and mercy of Jesus Christ if they stop him and ask him if he is a theistic marxist he would maybe be forced to say yes, but something tells me that isn't happening.
timbayly.worldmagblog.com /timbayly/archives/023344.html   (3368 words)

  
 MondayMorningInsight.com > Tony Campolo on “Being an Oxymoron”
Tony Campolo contends that homosexuality is a sin in practice, though not in orientation—though he also argues that gay people living together in a committed, sexually active relationship, is morally preferable to less than monogamous relationships.
Tony Campolo’s definitely a gifted communicator and I am glad to call him my brother in Christ, but again my struggle with him is that when his politics do not (in my mind) agree with scripture he proof-texts scripture to agree with his politics.
Tony’s stands are admittedly pretty liberal, more liberal than my own and I’ve been accused of being pretty liberal, but I think he tries to reflect the love of Jesus Christ in his views on social politics.
mondaymorninginsight.com /index.php/site/comments/tony_campolo_on_being_an_oxymoron   (5543 words)

  
 Tony Campolo--School for Social Change, Eastern University
Tony preaches straight from the heart, often challenging both conservative and liberal assumptions in the very same sermon.
Tony Campolo has inspired thousands of students to honor the Lord's call to live and work in the world's most oppressed communities.
Eastern University is pleased to honor Dr. Campolo's four decades of transformational leadership at Eastern University and in the larger church and has established half-tuition Campolo Fellowships for qualifying students enrolled in programs within the School for Social Change, as well as the School of Graduate and Professional Studies.
www.eastern.edu /academic/campolo/inst/tonycampolo.shtml   (1005 words)

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