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" A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school. "

Tony Campolo

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" Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible? "

" Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. "

" I've got some repenting to do. "

Tony Campolo

Some

Got

" Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ. "

" Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. "

" Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. "

" I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. "

" Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. "

" But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government. "

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

" But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States? "

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

" Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed. "

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

" After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. "

" Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. "

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Young

Voting

" Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. "

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

" Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. "

" Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. "

" There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. "

" Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. "

Tony Campolo

Mind

Depression

" So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. "

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Time

Bible

" Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' "

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