I don't personally know Wakefield but I've seen him around the FIU campus.
A budding freelance journalist from Indianapolis, Wakefield lived in Greenwich Village...
Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Wakefield cites Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo, two Evangelical authors disturbed by the hard-right politics dominant in Evangelical churches.
So Wakefield holds up NUTCASE Tony Campolo as a theological role model. Anyone else out there ever see Campolo speak? Flat out LOON. Oh, and he was the guy that Bill Clinton was laughingly joking to right after Ron Brown's funeral. When Clinton spotted a news camera on him, he INSTANTLY changed his demeanor to one of teary grief. Unfortunately, Campolo didn't know about the change of mood mandated by the news camera and he kept right on laughing.
Oh please, declare a 'holy war'.
Mr. Wakefield was baptized as a child at the First Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, and at age nine attended a Baptist Bible School class that led him to choose baptism by full immersion at the age of eleven. During college he became an atheist, and did not return to church until 1980 when he went to a Christmas Eve service at King's Chapel, a Christian church in the Unitarian-Universalist denomination in Boston. He joined that church, served on its vestry and as co-chair of its adult religious education committee, and served on the national board of the Unitarian-Universalist Christian Fellowship.Sounds like he's about as Christian as your average Unitarian.
Ping to read later
The fundamental problem of the "social gospel" is that it is neither social nor the gospel.When a leftist speaks of "society" he means nothing other that government. There is nothing "social" about the destruction of charity by government cooption.
And since the "social gospel" places trust in the benevolance of Caesar, it is not a Christian gospel.
Tony may not fit my notion of a Spirit-filled intimate with Jesus. But he walks the walk a LOT better than a lot of pastors I've met.
He and his group more or less turned some Caribbean country around fairly wholesale via their sacrificial giving and thoughtful interventions.
He and fellow yuppies live on about 20% of their salaries adn devote the rest to well thought-out selfless Christian gifts and works.
And, he certainly seems to believe that Christ came in the flesh; died for our sins and rose the 3rd day etc.--all the basic doctrines of the faith.
He's a sociologist. Has more of a liberal political bent, perspective than I'd prefer by a long shot. But he's not a loon.
Our men's group went through 3 or 4 of his books in Taipei very candidly. We all came away respecting him more than I, at least, did before that.
Campolo is right out there with Bishop Gene Robinson and The Rowan Williams. He's just more skillful at using Christian vocabulary.
Tony Compost is a Marxist Socialist posintg as a preacher. he's a worthless piece of garbage.
an elderly friend of mine, who is not a retired wealthy executive from a very large regional gocery/variety chain once picked up compost at an airport in his Jag when Compost was coming to the city for a speaking engagement. Compost almost immediately proceeded to chastisr my friend for driving a Jag. My friend felt a bit guilty for a while even though he regularly made charitable donations, some of which were in the six-figure range. I told my friend he should have dropped compost at the nearest 7-11 and to find his own way to the event.
And Campolo is a leader is the heretical Emerging Church ["conversation"] Movement
Aanounce that unless Jesus is released, unharmed, the people who took him hostage will be eliminated energetically.