Progressing Spirit

My Great Mentors – Number Seven: Clifford L. Stanley

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on October, 10 2013

He was my Professor of Theology, teaching me for two of the three years I was in Seminary. For me he was the major voice on that 1950 …

I embrace the divinity of Christ but do not wish to rely on the virgin birth or the resurrection as proof of that divinity. My pride in this “position” …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

“Think Different – Accept Uncertainty” Part IX: What is the Human Reality Our Ancestors Called Original Sin?

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on April, 26 2012

What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be alive? Why are we constituted the way we are? What was there and what is there …

I would guess that this letter could be, or has been, duplicated in its essence by many who have written to you. Recently, I began reading The Sins …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

The Contraception Debate: Is Misogyny on the Rise?

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on March, 8 2012

Here is some of the evidence.

In Virginia, the State Legislature was poised to pass and Republican Governor Bob McDonnell to sign a bill requiring a vaginally-invasive medical procedure …

A couple of weeks ago, we found two demonstrators across the street from the church as the 11:15 service ended. They had a giant prop Bible, about six feet tall, …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

Meditation on Turning 80 in London

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on August, 25 2011

I marked the 80^th anniversary of my birth in Green’s Restaurant, Duke Street in London this summer. What I thought was to be a quiet, romantic …

As a cleric, you can’t be expected to understand the technicalities of architecture and engineering, but crashing planes into skyscrapers would never be enough to cause them to …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

My Great Mentors – Number Seven: Clifford L. Stanley

I embrace the divinity of Christ but do not wish to rely on the virgin birth or the resurrection as proof of that divinity. My pride in this “position” …

“Think Different – Accept Uncertainty” Part IX: What is the Human Reality Our Ancestors Called Original Sin?

I would guess that this letter could be, or has been, duplicated in its essence by many who have written to you. Recently, I began reading The Sins …

The Contraception Debate: Is Misogyny on the Rise?

A couple of weeks ago, we found two demonstrators across the street from the church as the 11:15 service ended. They had a giant prop Bible, about six feet tall, …

Meditation on Turning 80 in London

As a cleric, you can’t be expected to understand the technicalities of architecture and engineering, but crashing planes into skyscrapers would never be enough to cause them to …

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