Will Campbell: Jesus was a Radical
Richard Beck Posted on 10.14.2013 Ya'll know I'm a big fan of the late Will Campbell. I'd say I'm a Campbellite twice over. First, as a member of the Churches of Christ, a founder of which was Alexander Campbell, we are often called "Campbellites," a moniker that Wikipedia calls "a mildly pergortitive term" for members of the CoC. And, second, I'd say I'm a Campbellite as I'm a devoted student of the life and witness of Will Campbell. To further your own exposure to Will Campbell, some selections below from his rhetorically epic address to the Whitsitt Society in 1995. Campbell was a Baptist so in parts below he levels a lot of his critique as his own tribe at the time of the speech. I'm unaware of what those particular issues were. But Campbell's indictment of replacing the gospel with intramural denominational squabbles, witch-hunting and power plays seems universally applicable: The first thing I fee...