Heads up everyone! I just learned that Bishop Spong will be speaking at Myers Park Baptist Church on Friday evening, October 16. Judy and I will definitely be going, and I hope some of you will be able to as well. I promise you it will be worth your time, and could [...]
This week I am continuing with a few more tantalizing quotes from John Shelby Spong’s newest book, Eternal Life: A New Vision. Many have said that this will be the work for which he will be most remembered.
It was the experience of being loved that opened my eyes to see the love that is [...]
In the creeds, doctrines, and dogmas of the developing Christian church, our definition of God was expressed in the time-bound thought forms of the fourth century. To believe dated concepts with the human brain is not a sign of orthodoxy; it is a sign of being spiritually dead. The task of religion is [...]
I hope these quotes will inspire you to buy the book! Here’s more food for thought:
…No religion can, in the last analysis, ever really be about proper beliefs and proper practices. Those are only the artifacts of religious power. Religion has to be about the enhancement of life through love. [...]
Following up on Spong’s comments on mysticism:
“…the time has arrived when we need to stop forever the human attempt to see God as the supernatural or divine parent figure, to acknowledge that this is a religious drive for security and that we now need to embrace a new possibility. Perhaps the mystical dimension of [...]
Ever since I was a seminary student at Duke, I have take a considerable amount of heat and criticism over my love and admiration for retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong. I have just finished his latest, and he says “final” book, entitled
Eternal Life: A New Vision.
I thought it might help [...]
The President: Hello everyone hows everybody doing today? Im here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And weve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Im glad you all could join us today.
I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And [...]
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