Progressing Spirit

Conflicting Emotion: Pride in the President, Shame at the Response of Many Church Leaders

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on May, 17 2012

When the President of the United States, announced his support for gay marriage, the political landscape began to roil and I was filled with two quite opposite sets of …

How do you get around the common requirement of calling yourself a Christian unless you believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead? If you don’t believe that …

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

Conflicting Emotion: Pride in the President, Shame at the Response of Many Church Leaders

How do you get around the common requirement of calling yourself a Christian unless you believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead? If you don’t believe that …

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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