www.tonycampolo.org
Tony Campolo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He previously served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Eastern College and earned a Ph.D. from Temple University.
Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE), Dr. Campolo has worked to create, nurture and support programs for “at-risk” children in cities across North America, and has helped establish schools and universities in several developing countries.
Dr. Campolo is a media commentator on religious, social and political matters, having guested on television programs like Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live and CNN News. He co-hosted his own television series, Hashing It Out, on the Odyssey Network, and presently hosts From Across The Pond, a weekly program on the Premier Radio Network in England. The author of 32 books, his most recent titles are Speaking My Mind, Which Jesus, The Church Enslaved (Co-authored by Michael Battle (Augsburg), Let Me Tell You a Story: Life Lessons From Unexpected Places and Unlikely People (WORD); The Survival Guide for Christians on Campus, co-authored by Will Willimon (Howard).
Dr. Campolo is an ordained minister, has served American Baptist Churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is presently recognized as an associate pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia.
Dr. Campolo and his wife Peggy have two grown children and four grandchildren.
(Friday 8:30am)
Delivering young people from a narcissistic Christianity is an essential part of the calling of a youth worker. Teenagers must be aware of the world that lies beyond their own sphere of everyday experiences. They must come to see that Christianity is much more than just resolving their own personal conflicts and troubles. It is also a call to address the needs of the poor and the oppressed of the world. Furthermore, strong emphasis will be placed on the concept of praxis and how that relates to the subject. I believe that the more we get young people to commit to ministries to the poor and the oppressed and to facilitating social change in the world, the more they themselves will be changed. Jesus once said, “Whoever seeks to save himself will lose himself, but whoever is willing to lose himself in the cause of saving others and for My Kingdom will himself/herself be saved.” In this seminar we will be focused on how to make that happen. Eliminating world poverty will be a primary focus of the remarks and discussion in this seminar.
(Friday 10:30am)
Books such as Hunnington’s A Clash of Civilizations, Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, and the writings of existentialists such as Nietzsche and postmodernists such as Foucault are changing the ways in which people think and live. It is crucial for youth workers to understand how these over-arching ideas are moulding the world in which young people are being socialised, and how they affect perceptions of Christianity which are emerging in the minds of youth.
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