Why Should People Pay Any Attention to the Christian Church on Sexual Matters?

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 29 2007

In recent decades the primary battles that have been fought
in the Christian Church have not been about theology, but about
issues of human sexuality. Huge debates polarize …

The Fourth Fundamental: Miracles and the Resurrection, Part IV

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 22 2007

The idea that one can raise a deceased person to
life entered the biblical story in two narratives from the
Elijah-Elisha cycle of stories. It is then picked …

The Fourth Fundamental: Miracles and the Resurrection, Part III

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 15 2007

In this series we first sought to identify the places in the
Bible where miracles seem to appear in groups. There are only
three: The Moses-Joshua cycle of …

Miracles and the Resurrection The Fourth Fundamental, Part I

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 1 2007

I return this week to our running series on the Five
Fundamentals, that supposedly irreducible set of principles that
believers were told had to be accepted as literally …

Flavius Josephus, Judas Iscariot and Anti-Semitism

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 25 2007

During this summer I have read Flavius Josephus’
history of the first century war fought between the Romans and
the Jews. That war began in Galilee in 66 C. …

On Spending Three Days with DignityUSA

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 18 2007

“My name is Sam Sinnett and I am a gay
Catholic.” These words, reminiscent of the way members
introduce themselves at AA meetings, opened a luncheon at a

In Praise of the United Church of Christ

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 11 2007

Throughout the course of my professional career I have always

been impressed by that

faith community which calls itself the United Church of Christ

or the Congregational Church. …

Examining Politics in America on our 231st Birthday

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 4 2007

As our nation pauses to celebrate its birthday many things

vie for our people’s attention. There is the drain of human

life and treasure in the ill-begotten, mismanaged …

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