Progressing Spirit

Re-Creating Easter II: Who Stood in the Center of the Easter Moment?

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on September, 24 2015

Who was the person who stood in the center of the most dramatic moment in Christian history, the experience we call Easter? Who was it who first saw the …

I have been reading Mircea Eliade’s Cosmos and History. What do you make of his premise that religious ritual is analogous to primitive practices meant to evoke …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

Introducing Jesus for the Non-Religious to France

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on July, 24 2014

(The following is the speech delivered in Paris at the launching of the French Translation of Jesus for the Non-Religious.)

How can those of us living in …

It was fun to read the questions from the man from Saudi Arabia. Here is a question it raises for me. Why do you think there are four gospels …

Answered by Bishop John Shelby Spong

Re-Creating Easter II: Who Stood in the Center of the Easter Moment?

I have been reading Mircea Eliade’s Cosmos and History. What do you make of his premise that religious ritual is analogous to primitive practices meant to evoke …

Introducing Jesus for the Non-Religious to France

It was fun to read the questions from the man from Saudi Arabia. Here is a question it raises for me. Why do you think there are four gospels …

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