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I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. (Tony Campolo)
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. View quote
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does. View quote
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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. View quote
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In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! View quote
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. (Tony Campolo)
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. View quote
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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? View quote
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I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice. View quote
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Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. View quote
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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God. View quote
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The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, 'If I should wake before I die....' Life can get away from you. View quote
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' View quote
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. (Tony Campolo)
Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith. View quote
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. View quote
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I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! View quote
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If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. View quote
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