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.
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.
Family guy, hurtling headlong through the late forties. Not complaining. Far from it. Life is what you make it, and life is good.
I enjoy the love of one good woman. I revel in the joy of two strong and beautiful daughters.
I delight in all that is true and good and beautiful. My business is all about words, ideas, and the business that they can create. My hobbies are mostly physical (except the ones that aren't), taken outdoors and often painful. I kind of like it that way. I'm not sure why. I just do.
My faith is Christian and that makes me a sinner and a saint, swallowing the the Word, the Bread, and the Wine altogether, with the Nicene Creed for dessert, and all by the grace of Jesus.
I'll converse about most anything, even if I don't know much about it. That's pretty much why I thought a blog might be a good idea.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound
Storms make oaks take deeper root. George Herbert
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
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