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Anthony "Tony" Campolo (born February 25, 1935) is an American sociologist, pastor, author, public speaker and former spiritual advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Campolo is known as one of the most influential leaders in the Evangelical left and has been a major proponent of progressive thought and reform within the evangelical community. He has also become a leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement, which aims to put emphasis on the teachings of Jesus. Campolo is a popular commentator on religious, political, and social issues, and has been a guest on programs such as The Colbert Report, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live, Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect and The Hour.

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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 Jesus that makes me want to sing duets with Him … Not only do I love the feminine is Jesus, but the more I know Jesus, the more I realize that Jesus loves the feminine in me. Until I accept the feminine in my humanness, there will be a part of me that cannot receive the Lord’s love. … There is that feminine side of me that must be recovered and strengthened if I am to be like Christ … And until I feel the feminine in Jesus, there is a part of Him which I cannot identify.

Duets, Jesus, Loves, Recovered, Want

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Affirms, Church, Government, Marriage, Sacred

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Christian, Christians, Design, Intelligent, Support, Thrilled

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?

Bible, Faithful, Issues, Jesus

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

Biblical, Community, Evangelical, Thinking

The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

Abortion, Community, Gay, Issues, Two

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

Advice, Bill, Bills, President, Seldom

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (. . . ) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

Christian, Define, Grace, Jesus, Red, Respond

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

Addition, Minister, Ministers, Professors, University, University Professors

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

Career, Careers, Critics, Public, Speaker, Speakers

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

Commitment, Jobs, Parties, Party, Republicans, Respond

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

Baptism, Body, Christian, Part, Responsible, Spiritually

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

Agents, Call, Creation, Race

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Future, Important, Moving, Past, Present, See

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.

Likes, Listen, Perhaps, Powerful, Rabbi, Wells

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

Educator, Explanation, Explanations, Human, Open Minded, Prevent

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

Attention, Born, Concerned, Failing, Pay

Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

Christian, Christians, Cutting, Jesus, Wealthy

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

Create, Done, Hand, Hands, Mean, Political

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

Being Human, Care, Cares, Dehumanizing, World

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