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Those who think that church people are all bad should have been around on that Sunday, when they would have had a chance to see the church at its best. They would have seen the church as a nurturing community. That kind of church is worth your time.

Sincerely,

Tony

This was excerpted from Letters to a Young Evangelical by Tony Campolo, copyright © 2006. Used by permission of Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

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Christianity Today's bookmark review of the book is in the May issue.

Letters to a Young Evangelical is available from ChristianBook.com other retailers.

It is one of the "Letters to a Young ___" book group, a part of the "The Art of Mentoring" series from Basic Books.

The book's website links to a video of an interview with Campolo on The Hour.

Campolo's website has an excerpt of chapter three of Letters to a Young Evangelical.

First Things posted "A Letter to Tony Campolo," a response to the book.

The January 2003 issue of Christianity Today featured a profile of Campolo (one of the top 25 most influential preachers, according to PreachingToday.com), "The Positive Prophet." Related articles include "Tony Talks Too Much," "Candidate Campolo," "Why Clinton Likes Campolo," "One Lord, One Faith, One Voice?," "Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, and Plain Old Murder," and "Rift Opens Among Evangelicals on AIDS Funding."

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