Tony Campolo

tonight Dan and I went to hear Tony Campolo speak at St. Joe’s Pro Cathedral. It was the annual Romero Center Peace & Justice Lecture. He talked (or preached, as it were) about the Christian call to build the Kingdom of God on earth and what that looks like. It’s a familiar message I’ve heard many times before, but he delivered it very well, with humor and animation.

It was funny to realize that I was the only one in my house who had heard of him before – he’s not Catholic… I was pretty impressed that the Romero Center got him as a speaker because he's pretty famous (in ceratin circles...), but then I learned that he was born and raised in Philadelphia and still lives and teaches there, so it probably wasn't too hard.