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Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics | 
 enlarge | Author: Tony Campolo
Publisher: Regal Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 14805
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0830745297
Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083
EAN: 9780830745296
ASIN: 0830745297
Publication Date: February 1, 2008
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In today s political environment, who speaks for whom is not always clear. Over the past couple of decades, evangelical Christians have tended to be associated with the religious right and the most conservative positions of the Republican Party. Rebelling against this designation are those who prefer to be called Red Letter Christians, desiring to live out the red letters of Jesus words in the New Testament. Believing that Jesus is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, Red Letter Christians want to jumpstart a religious movement that will transcend partisan politics and concentrate on issues such as fighting poverty, caring for the environment, advancing peace, promoting strong families, and supporting a consistent ethic of life, all viewed as critical moral and biblical values. Into this arena of thought steps Tony Campolo, the powerful evangelist known for his passionate and prophetic sharing of the radical message of Jesus. In this book, Campolo examines many of the hot-button issues facing evangelicals from the perspective of Jesus red-letter words in the Bible. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, Campolo will make you think and pray and act.
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 Disappointed. October 30, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
One would think that "Red Letter Christian" means that each topic, each belief, each position, would be based on a foundation of "red letter" foundation.
To the contrary, however. Campolo takes a stand on the gay rights issue without quoting a single biblical text.
The Campolo chapter on abortion is similarly void of Scriptural foundation. Worse. he spends ink trying to develop a moral equivalency between feticide and global warning.
If you're looking to understand better the foundation for the Left's beliefs and how they corroborate with Scripture, don't look here. "Red Letter" is apparently just wishful thinking, or perhaps a clever way of hoping no one will notice.
I've already given my copy away.
We used to think the world of Tony as a human being. This book, however, really showed us the feet of clay and reminded us that indeed, without a Scriptural foundation, the Evangelical individual wukk oerceive that most of what is written here is just more noise.....
 Campolo September 26, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Campolo attempts to recast the traditional definition of evangelical in his book. He challenges the popular image of evangelicals as being one and the same as the religious right. He does not believe that Jesus was either a dem or a republican. He takes on a host of hot button issues one by one (including poverty, the environment, terrorism, education...) and lays out his positions based on what he believes to be God's will.
It is no secret that Campolo is left of center, and at times very much so. He believes religion has a place in politics (beyond abortion and gay rights) and quotes Gandhi in writing "those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is" (p. 25). I certainly did not agree with him on all of his arguments and think his books casts a wide net at times.
I like the idea of this book more than I liked the book itself. Unfortunately it is not especially well written and so I'm left giving it only a couple of stars. I found Wallis' book, God's Politics, to be more engaging and balanced.
Abortion issue August 26, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
One simple answer to abortion: adoption.
I have two close family members who had to go out of the country to adopt. We Americans prefer abortion.
It is unfathomable to me that there are Christian leaders out there today, like Tony Campolo, who have figured out ways to diminish if not justify something like abortion which has to be the most atrocious abomination to the heart of God than anything else I can think of in modern times....more than wars and rumors of war; more than capital punishment; more than bad governmental policies; more than a person's lack of insurance; even more than societal mores that actually encourage a fatherless culture.
The condoning of abortion by Christians leaves me speechless.
So this is how the Church now beckons the little ones.
 How to think politically and religiously August 17, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is a good primer on what the relationship between faith and politics may mean. However, if you have read Jim Wallis or Tony Campolo before perhaps those books are better written and not so rote.
Is he about religion or liberal politics? The answer shocked me. July 19, 2008
12 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book frankly upset me. At times I could hardly read it.
I am a Catholic, not an Evangelical, but I expected to mostly agree with a book written by a Protestant minister.
Campolo's blind indifference to moral problems such as an illegitimacy rate closing in on 40%, the breakdown of the family, and abortion distressed me greatly. He prefers to natter on about lobbyists, gun control and government waste.
How could any believing Christian, and especially a minister, not see the moral chaos around us? Doesn't he care about the harm done to children in our country when families are so unstable? Single parent children are abused in staggering numbers and are at great risk for suicide, drug abuse, school and emotional problems, and sexual promiscuity, as shown in the research of Barbara Defoe Whitehead and Blankenhorn's "Fatherless America". Shouldn't that be what a minister writes about?
Instead Campolo discusses the environment. But everyone agrees with him there. What about a troubling moral issue like abortion? Campolo is "unwilling to become single-issue voters whose politics are determined solely by abortion" (p 121).
I was downright queasy at his solutions to abortion. He believes "enabling poor women to afford a better life is an obvious way to encourage them to reject abortion" (p 122). What about encouraging the father to marry the mother? If we had a society which promoted love, God, and marriage, rather than selfishness, everyone would be better off. And it's exactly what I'd expect a Christian minister to call for.
Over forty MILLION babies have died in America by abortion since legalization. That's a continent of human beings. Campolo seems blind to the situation.
Then there is his take on partial birth abortion, still legal and performed every day in America. A baby has scissors stabbed in his head and then his brains are sucked out. Campolo notes that even in such cases "to vote against abortion is, to some Red letter Christians, a vote against the right of women to make decisions that determine their biological destinies" (p 124). Never mind the rights of the baby whose brains are sucked out. I had to wonder if Campolo had ever asked himself what God wants, not what the smartest way to vote is.
Time and again I agreed with Campolo on small issues, which was pretty much the only things he wrote about. The difference is I found them small and he didn't. I agree "blind patriotism is not a virtue" (p 47) since Christians should care first about God and God's laws. I don't care about politics at all, except for moral issues.
But where is the evidence Campolo cares first about God? And if not God, then what does he believe in? He fusses on about government waste as if government waste wasn't a problem a thousand years ago, and likely will be a problem 1,000 years from now.
Every single issue he mentions is a plank of the Democratic party, and he blindly adheres to every one of them. Like a robot, he reiterates the party line on the minimum wage, gun control, the environment, federal debt, government waste and political lobbyists. How could any religious person think these are critical issues compared to the moral breakdown of our society?
This book distressed me greatly.
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