Progressing Spirit

Inauguration Day 2013

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on January, 24 2013

Inauguration day in America is a time of transition, the proper moment to articulate the hopes and dreams of the future. These things are more vivid if the one …

I understand and support that “you do not think of God theistically,” i.e. what could be called the God of the Old Testament. But, as I have read, …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

My Second Great Mentor: David Watt Yates (1904-1967)

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on January, 12 2012

His name was David Watt Yates. As an Episcopal priest he fought for the integration of the races in North Carolina in the 1940’s! He was a conscientious objector …

Are you sure that animals are not self-conscious? Can an animal that shows “compassion” to another creature (such as a dolphin assisting a drowning human) not have a sense …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

Inauguration Day 2013

I understand and support that “you do not think of God theistically,” i.e. what could be called the God of the Old Testament. But, as I have read, …

My Second Great Mentor: David Watt Yates (1904-1967)

Are you sure that animals are not self-conscious? Can an animal that shows “compassion” to another creature (such as a dolphin assisting a drowning human) not have a sense …

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