Born Gay!

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 28 2005

A new book co-authored by Dr. Qazi Rahman, a lecturer in
psychobiology at the University of East London and Dr. Glenn
Wilson, a member of the faculty of …

Jewish Fundamentalism

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 21 2005

Religious fundamentalism is built on the assumption that
the truth of God has been captured for all time. It comes in
many forms including inerrancy for the words …

Robert Walter Funk 1926-2005

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 14 2005

By the force of his will and personality, this man brought
biblical scholarship out of the ivy covered walls of academia
and placed it on the front pages …

Hurricane Katrina and American Priorities

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 7 2005

I hesitated at first to write about Hurricane Katrina and the
devastation that has been visited on the city of New Orleans
and the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, …

The Dark Side of Evangelical Religion

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 31 2005

I often wonder what Bible it is that people read in America’s
Bible Belt. I wonder what the religion is that is practiced
by the Religious Right. It …

On Death With Dignity

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 23 2005

Late last month I joined with other religious leaders,
Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, to file an amicus curiae
brief with the Supreme Court of the United States on …

The Emerging Church

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 17 2005

Time after time I am asked by people to describe what the
church of the future will look like. It seems to these
questioners that one who has …

Theology and Baseball

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 10 2005

Last month an anonymous member of my class at the Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley, California, left this unsigned
question on my lectern: “How can you be so …

A New Dark Age Begins

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 27 2005

Several years ago, in a column about the harassment, removal and silencing of Roman Catholic scholars like Hans Kung, Leonardo Boff, Charles Curran and Edward Schillebeeckx by that …

Phyllis’ Garden — Finding Meaning in the Ordinary

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 13 2005

The threat of meaninglessness and the specter of eternal anonymity are two forces that, far more than most of us realize, drive human behavior. The vast majority of …

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