Category: Tony’s Blog Posts

An Important Announcement

On June 18th I will be speaking at the Ocean City Tabernacle located at 550 Wesley Avenue in Ocean City, NJ at both the 8:30 and 10:30 am services. Your presence could be a great encouragement for me, and it

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Empathizing, or at Least Understanding, Older Working Class White Men

By Tony Campolo Older white working class men have been hurt and are angry—and for good reason. They have suffered three-quarters of the eight million job losses caused by the 2008 financial crisis. The male-dominated industries of construction and manufacturing

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My Prayer at the Democratic National Convention

On Tuesday evening, July 26th, at the Democratic National Convention, I was given the opportunity to deliver the benediction. It was at the end of the day’s program during which the convention delegates voted to make Hillary Clinton their candidate

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Red Letter Christians and Prayer

by Tony Campolo Red Letter Christians should try to be at the Ocean City Tabernacle (550 Wesley Ave., Ocean City, NJ 08226) on June 26th at 7:00 pm. Along with Mark Lowry (of T.V. fame) I will try to explain

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Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?

By Tony Campolo – founder of the Red Letter Christians Movement When Larycia Hawkins, a Professor at Wheaton College claimed that Christians and Muslims worshiped the same God, a major controversy broke out. Consequently, I was asked if I agreed

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Where Can the Devil Be Found?

By Tony Campolo Eric Hoffer in his seminal book The True Believer declared that a movement can exist without a god! Many movements have. The Nazi movement existed without a god, and Marxist/Leninist Communism was a movement that existed without

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Trumpism and Evangelicals

By Tony Campolo Donald Trump has revealed something about we the American people. It is not just Republicans who are marching to his drum beat. If he becomes the Republican nominee for the presidency we will learn very quickly that

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Red Letter Christians Think the Pope is a Protestant

By Tony Campolo Someone has said that Pope Francis is really a Protestant. He is, if Protestant is defined as someone who protests. His recent encyclical Laudato si’ is a protest against the often irresponsible industries as they pollute the

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Being a Troubled Non-Violent Resister

By Tony Campolo   I want to be a non-violent resister because as a Red Letter Christian I am committed to taking seriously what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount. There’s no way to read through chapters five

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Shane Claiborne Heads the Red Letter Christians Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment

By Tony Campolo Shane Claiborne, one of the co-directors of the Red Letter Christians movement, has made abolishing the death penalty a major commitment. He not only has drawn up petitions to be signed by likeminded believers who want to

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