Miracles in the Bible, Part II

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 6 2006

There is a great desire among religious people for

quick answers to complex issues. “What is the meaning of prayer?

What do you believe about life after death? Do …

Did Jesus Really Perform Miracles?

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 30 2006

For many people the title of this column represents a

silly question. The pages of the gospels are filled with stories

of supernatural happenings associated with Jesus. Most people,

Understanding Religious Anger

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 22 2006

One of the things that always surprises me is the level of anger,

often expressed in acts of overt rudeness, which seems to mark

religious people. It appears so …

Questions and Answers

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 16 2006

A note to my readers:

Dear Friends:

Your letters come in such numbers that if I responded to each one

I would need a …

The Ambivalent Church

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 9 2006

There is something fundamentally flawed about

institutional Christianity today. I see it in two distinct

places. It was clearly present when I listened to ecclesiastical

figures talk about the …

Cowboy Diplomacy in a Frightening World

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 2 2006

In one of its regular features The NewsHour with Jim

Lehrer on PBS recently showed the pictures of 16 more American

military personnel who had recently lost their lives in …

Emily Jane Failla: A Special Life

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 26 2006

The community of St. Peter’s Church in Morristown,

New Jersey, where my wife and I worship, gathered this week to

celebrate the life of Emily Jane Failla and to …

Free to Believe: A Voice from the United Reformed Church of England

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 19 2006

Recently, while on a lecture tour of England, I was the keynote

speaker at a national conference of the United Reformed Church of

England. This body, the result of …

On Dating the New Testament

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 12 2006

A letter from one of my Internet readers, Max Rippeto, asked how

New Testament scholars went about the task of dating the books of

the New Testament. It was …

Katharine Jefferts Schori – New Primate of the Episcopal Church

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 5 2006

Dear Friends,

The English newspapers made it a front page story.

English ecclesiastical figures from the Archbishop of Canterbury

down to a bigoted pressure group called Forward …

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