Tony Campolo Showed Me a Different Way To Be a Christian

Tony Campolo (1935-2024). Graphic by Betsy Shirley/Sojourners

Looking back now, a quarter century later, I see how Tony Campolo’s life shaped my own. When the political operatives of the New Right partnered with Jerry Falwell and other Southern Baptists to use Christian faith to rally a reactionary political movement in the 1970s, Tony understood what was happening. 

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