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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

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Gay, Two, Issues

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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?

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Support, Generations, Righteousness

"Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

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America, People, Might

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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.

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Leadership, Real, Believe

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There is a feminine side of God. I always knew this … It is this feminine side of God I find in Jesus that makes me want to sing duets with Him … Not only do I love the feminine is Jesus, but the more I know Jesus, the more I realize that Jesus loves the feminine in me. Until I accept the feminine in my humanness, there will be a part of me that cannot receive the Lord’s love. … There is that feminine side of me that must be recovered and strengthened if I am to be like Christ … And until I feel the feminine in Jesus, there is a part of Him which I cannot identify.

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Jesus, Duets, Want

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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.

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Christian, Believe, Taken

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I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

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Hurt, Giving, Joy

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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

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Believe, Hard Times, Twenties

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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

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School, Government, Elderly

"Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

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Religious, Strong, Speaks Out

"Using the Church for Partisan Politics" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2007.

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Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

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Having Fun, Groups, Christianity

"The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

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Commitment, America, Growing

"An Open Letter to Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2006.

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I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

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Religious, Moving, Commitment

"The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

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Voting, Young, Democratic

"Gains for the Democrats Among Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2008.

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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

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Opportunity, Men, Privilege

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It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

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Moving, New Day, Matter

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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

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Religious, Real, Thinking

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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

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Couple, Order, Presidential

"The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

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Flying, Essentials, Culture

"Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

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Israel, Borders, Want

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That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

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Religious, Europe, Cities

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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

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Religious, Communication, Mean

"Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

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Believe, Thinking, Issues

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So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

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Issues, Addresses, Scandal

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It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?

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Christian, Jesus, Differences

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