Why I Left Why I Stayed

<p>Bestselling Christian author activist and scholar Tony Campolo and his son Bart an avowed Humanist debate their spiritual differences and explore similarities involving faith belief and hope that they share.</p><p>Over a Thanksgiving dinner fifty-year-old Bart Campolo announced to his Evangelical pastor father Tony Campolo that after a lifetime immersed in the Christian faith he no longer believed in God. The revelation shook the Campolo family dynamic and forced father and son to each reconsider his own personal journey of faith--dual spiritual investigations into theology faith and Humanism that eventually led Bart and Tony back to one another. </p><p>In <em>Why I Left Why I Stayed</em> the Campolos reflect on their individual spiritual odysseys and how they evolved when their paths diverged. Tony a renowned Christian teacher and pastor recounts his experience from the initial heartbreak of discovering Bart's change in faith to the subsequent healing he found in his own self-examination to his embracing of his son's point of view. Bart an author and Humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California considers his faith journey from Progressive Christianity to Humanism revealing how it affected his outlook and transformed his relationship with his father. </p><p>As <em>Why I Left Why I Stayed</em> makes clear a painful schism between father and son that could have divided them irreparably became instead an opening that offered each an invaluable look not only at what separated them but more importantly what they shared.</p>