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  • Understanding The Christian Roots of My Political Depression

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 8 2004

    The Republican Convention in New York City forced me to face the fact that my feelings about the Bush Administration have reached a visceral negativity, the intensity of …

    What do you mean when you say that “Atonement Theology” will kill the …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Republicans at Prayer in Madison Square Garden

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 1 2004

    The Republican Party in New York City this week looks very much like the Democratic Party looked in Boston last month. Strip away the posters; mute the rhetoric …

    As a Sunday School teacher of the teenage group and a parent of two teens, what resources are there for this age group? Most of what I’ve seen in …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • A View from Europe

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 25 2004

    “What is it about George W. Bush that causes you to be so negative?”

    That was the question I posed this summer at a dinner party …

    My problem with your suggestion that we must ‘stay the course’ in Iraq is that I don’t know who the enemy is, what the ‘course’ is or how doing …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Christianity in Sweden – A Sign of Hope

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 18 2004

    In recent years it has been my privilege to observe first hand the state of Christianity in the various nations of Europe. It is not an encouraging picture. …

    Do you have any words that might help me understand the action that Governor James McGreevey took this past week?

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Crisis in the Church of Denmark

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 11 2004

    Denmark is a charming and beautiful country in Europe bounded by Germany, Sweden and the North Sea. Its image was imprinted in my memory positively during the dark …

    I am a member of a large United Church of Christ church in Maine. Our minister says the bedrock belief of Christianity is the Trinity. That is a stumbling …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Impressions from the Democratic National Convention

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 4 2004

    It was half family reunion and half religious revival. The ‘Vestments” worn for “worship” included hats decorated with everything from American flags to donkeys. Some were so bizarre …

    I am familiar with a number of claims made in “What Mel Gibson Does Not Understand About the Passion Narratives,” but I had not heard the hypothesis regarding …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Senator Kerry on the Place of Religion in America

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 28 2004

    For my column this week I have written a speech on the place of religion in American life that I would like to see Senator John Kerry make …

    …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible, Corporal Punishment and Human Guilt – Part 6

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 21 2004

    If God is not a punishing and rescuing deity, then who or what is God? If the biblical explanation of the source of evil is no longer operative, …

    In the context of American society today, what is it that encourages all the strange cult religions and extreme bigoted churches to thrive? In the light of the …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible, Corporal Punishment and Human Guilt – Part 5

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 14 2004

    “Those whom I love, I will reprove and chasten so be zealous and repent (Rev.3: 19).”

    Can you imagine that something as life denying as …

    What can people of faith do and say about the war in Iraq?

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible, Corporal Punishment and Human Guilt – Part 4

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 7 2004

    Is it accident, coincidence or strange fate that Christianity has managed to preside over centuries of history in which physical punishment has been the primary means of discipline …

    I have just finished reading Dominic Crossan’s book, “Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography.” Coupled with your writings, it made much sense, at least to me. I note with interest …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible, Corporal Punishment and Human Guilt – Part 3

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on June, 30 2004

    In the most deeply patriarchal part of our male-dominant Western history, women were also considered to be fit subjects for corporal punishment at the hands of their husbands. …

    I recently heard retired Bishop Paul Barnett of Sydney attacking you on radio here in Australia. He said, “All John Spong does is rehash Michael Goulder’s midrash line …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible, Corporal Punishment and Human Guilt – Part 2

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on June, 23 2004

    The physical abuse of children under the guise of “proper discipline” has been practiced in western history so frequently as to be thought of as normative. It has …

    What is your understanding of the Judgment? Are those who are not Christians to be damned?

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible, Corporal Punishment and Human Guilt – Part 1

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on June, 16 2004

    “He who spares the rod, hates his son; but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. (Prov. 13:24).”

    “Do not withhold …

    What do you consider the Bible to be? Is it uniquely inspired by God? Is it different from other literature? Is it authoritative? If it is not all …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Ultimate Source of Anti-Semitism – The Circumstances That Brought Judas Into the Jesus Story

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on June, 9 2004

    I return today to a subject that I have covered before. It is essential however, to this series on the sources of anti-Semitism, so I ask my reader’s …

    Can I use some of your statements, without attribution, in my attempt to expose the message of hate being put forth by my state senator here in Minnesota …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Questions from the Readers: The War in Iraq

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on June, 2 2004

    Dear Friends,

    Recent columns on the Iraq war have elicited great volumes of mail. I have picked representative samples of that mail and my response to them …

    Your piece on Iraq was a strong argument and well-said but what would you offer in its stead? John Kerry? Withdraw and surrender to those 7th-century wackos? If we …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Unmasking the Source of Christian Anti-Semitism – Part III

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on May, 26 2004

    When I was a child attending an Evangelical Episcopal (Anglican) Sunday school in North Carolina, I was taught that it was OK to hate Jews. If I questioned …

    Why do most of the writers whose questions you answer come from Australia? Are the Australians the majority of the questioners? Or do they ask the more interesting …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Yankees, Iraq and Patriotism

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on May, 19 2004

    Bob Shepherd is the resonant Voice of the New York Yankees, heard over the public address system welcoming fans to Yankee Stations and to the YES Network. He exhorts …


    How can we keep the Church without having to keep all the doctrines, dogmas and creeds of the religious past? How can we encourage that minority of people …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Unmasking the Sources of Christian Anti-Semitism – Part 2

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on May, 12 2004

    Intolerance and bigotry seem to be written into the very fabric of religious life, causing people to act in ways that are diametrically opposed to what they say they …

    The Lord’s Prayer seems to assume a theistic definition of God. How would you describe Jesus’ relationship with God if you suggest theism is no longer a compelling …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Disaster of Iraq – Enough is Enough!

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on May, 5 2004

    I have reached the point when I can no longer tolerate the Iraqi War. The final straw was the abuse of Iraqis in the prison camp at Abu …

    How can you on the one hand treat the words in Mk 14:50, “All the disciples forsook him and fled,” as literally true and the other accounts of Jesus’ …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Unmasking the Sources of Christian Anti-Semitism – Part 1

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on April, 28 2004

    “His blood be upon us and upon our children (Mt.27: 25).”

    The darkest, most disillusioning side of Christianity is revealed in the way that Christians …


    I have been having a problem of conscience lately, having to say the Nicene Creed during service at Eucharist. I do not believe what I’m saying and don’t …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • Questions from the Readers: Passion of the Christ, Christian Reformation

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on April, 21 2004

    Dear Readers,

    This week I want to get to your questions for a change. I had so many questions on the series on The Passion of the Christ …


    What is the origin of all those biblical admonitions about women being subservient to …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible and Homosexuality – The Church’s Dance in the 21st Century – Part 3

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on April, 14 2004

    “They glorified God not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened (Romans 1:21 KJV).”

    “For this …

    When you preside at the Eucharist are there words or phrases that, when saying, you either “cross your fingers” or cannot say?

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible and Homosexuality – The Church’s Dance in the 21st Century – Part 2

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on April, 7 2004

    “The men of the city — of Sodom, compassed the town round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter; And they called unto Lot …

    What sense did you make out of the death of your first wife? How did it affect your God experience?

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • The Bible and Homosexuality – The Church’s Dance in the 21st Century – Part 1

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on March, 31 2004

    “Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: It is an abomination (Lev.18: 22 KJV).”

    “If a man also lie with mankind as …

    How can the clergy educate its members into contemporary theology and attract back the church alumni without alienating the aging conservatives that finance the local church?

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
  • What Mel Gibson Does Not Understand About Biblical History

    Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on March, 24 2004

    In the year 66 C.E. guerilla activities that had been festering in Galilee for more than 40 years broke out in a full-scale war. While that war was engaged in …

    Instead of a Question and Answer this week Waterfront Media would like to make the readers of this column aware of the fact that the Jesus Seminar, meeting …

    Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong
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