Mike James last night posted about Tony Campolo, after reading an article in The Oregonian

Mike’s response :

Wow, I didn’t realize Tony Campolo was so sane. Cool!

I think Campolo just may well be one who kept me focused on some of those Omissions of the Church of our day; of its propensity to “uphold the status quo” and to construct theological systems of interpretation that uplhold a lifestyle that conforms to that status quo, with a sufficient amount of “religous trappings” and pious language to make it seem palatable to the church crowd.

I first heard Tony when I was a seminary student Youth Pastor, and had brought a small group of guys from my Youth group toLncaster County Pennsylvania to Creation ’80, a kind of a Christian Music Woodstock. I was so impressed. As a Sociology professor, and a very good one, (that was my college major– probably highly repsonsible for my “liberal” slant on many things—-when one begins to “question” how groups of people create systmes of belief which serve to give them a place in a culture, this is treading on ground that many Churches do not care to face about themselves).

If you want to read other things that I have mentioned or blogged about Tony Campolo, check out this search result list from my blog