Lots of people have lots of trouble with Tony Campolo. I get that. People just love to get all bent out of shape over Campolo. Mostly they think he talks too much about loving people and bringing our social structure in line with the gospel's call to care for the poor and outcast. By the same token, he seems to not talk enough about consequences and responsiblity and all those concepts beloved of the moral bean counters. This shapes his politics and his analysis of our society. I get that, but I don't have a huge problem with it. It takes all kinds, and I love Tony because his ideas grow organically out of his love of Jesus and his Good News. The Good News just makes the bean counters' heads explode.
I will say that at a few key points in my life I have read things by him or heard things from him that have been very influential.
This video is exactly the kind of story that gives fits to the bean counters - the people who have a seizure whenever they hear the name of Tony Campolo.
My favorite line?
"Naw....I'd GO to a church like 'dat."
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Great story! Did not happen to him- it happened to another Pastor. Tony got in trouble for using this and other stories as his own. He now pays to use other's stories as his own. I wish he would just attribute the stories instead of make them his own. I have a problem with what he does.
Again, late night posting has it's disadvantages. Looking at it now, this post is barely coherent compared to what I think I wanted to say. Some of Campolos theological stands are pretty fringe, kind of our there. He skirts the edge of orthodoxy for sure. Politically, he is most certainly of the progressive/liberal sector and kind of fringy on that level as well. I'm not out there with him on a lot of that stuff. But he loves Jesus. He tries to bring all this other stuff in line with the way he understands Jesus. I count him as a brother. And I have, as I said, learned much and been blessed by him. I looked into the plagiarism thing. Couldn't find much about it on the web. Some say other people stole this story from him. This seems like a very strange phenomenon to me. Much easier and cleaner to simply attribute the story to the source. The downsides of pretending it belongs to you are far greater than the upside.
Ron - I'm leaving your comment in. It's still a great story, but people who run across here deserve to know that the source is in doubt. Even if it was complete fiction, it's still a good story, and it ought to be true.
To those reading this blog: I have revealed my sources to Dubbahdee in regard to Tony's stories (they are bought and paid for). My wishing for my comment to be removed was that the message is a good one and the fact that the story happened to someone else shouldn't detract us from the message. Ron
Well, in my best pseudo schoolboy latin, I believe Neco Dracones translates as "I Kill Dragons." Still confused? Maybe a quick read of my introductory posting will clear some of this up. Read First Sortie.
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Great story! Did not happen to him- it happened to another Pastor. Tony got in trouble for using this and other stories as his own. He now pays to use other's stories as his own. I wish he would just attribute the stories instead of make them his own. I have a problem with what he does.
Ron
Dave, I just listened to this again. Delete my last comment. No one really needs to know. My bad.
Ron
Again, late night posting has it's disadvantages. Looking at it now, this post is barely coherent compared to what I think I wanted to say.
Some of Campolos theological stands are pretty fringe, kind of our there. He skirts the edge of orthodoxy for sure. Politically, he is most certainly of the progressive/liberal sector and kind of fringy on that level as well. I'm not out there with him on a lot of that stuff.
But he loves Jesus. He tries to bring all this other stuff in line with the way he understands Jesus. I count him as a brother. And I have, as I said, learned much and been blessed by him.
I looked into the plagiarism thing. Couldn't find much about it on the web. Some say other people stole this story from him. This seems like a very strange phenomenon to me. Much easier and cleaner to simply attribute the story to the source. The downsides of pretending it belongs to you are far greater than the upside.
Ron - I'm leaving your comment in. It's still a great story, but people who run across here deserve to know that the source is in doubt.
Even if it was complete fiction, it's still a good story, and it ought to be true.
To those reading this blog: I have revealed my sources to Dubbahdee in regard to Tony's stories (they are bought and paid for). My wishing for my comment to be removed was that the message is a good one and the fact that the story happened to someone else shouldn't detract us from the message.
Ron
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