Campolo Mixes Faith, Poitics and Red Letters

Having grown tired of the negative connotations of the word "fundamentalist" in the 50s, Billy Graham and his peers minted the term "evangelical" - a word intended to refer to a Jesus-loving-Bible-believing-Apolstolic Creed-embracing follower of Christ. Now some 50 years later this word has in turn picked up some unwanted baggage, and for many symbolises something more like a right-wing-anti-gay-pro-war-women-hating-environment-trashing follower of Bush, bent on bigotry and addicted to televangelist tv! You can understand why the likes of Campolo and younger Shane Claiborne are embracing the new term "red letter Christians", a name actually given to them by a secular Jewish country-and-western disc jockey in Nashville, Tenessee! In his book by the same name Campolo lays out a less partisan view of life and politics as seen through the eyes of the faithful. This timely book looks like an interesting read...

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