Tag: Bishop Spong

• A ‘Renegade’ Bishop and God

  The recently deceased Bishop John Shelby Spong stayed in the Episcopal Church, though no longer able to accept many traditional teachings at face value. To be true to themselves, people must either leave, or seek change from within. Choosing pursuit of change, Bishop Spong wrote the book “Unbelievable” in which, like the reformer Martin Luther,…

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  22nd Jan 2023

  Christianity, Consciousness, History, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Being, Bishop Spong, Church, Design, God, Luther, Materialism, Reformation, Spirit, Theism

• The Non-Tribal Religion of the Future?

  I stopped being a Christian minister forty years ago, and don’t now attend any church, but I’d gladly have listened to the late Bishop John Shelby Spong. And if I were to have my time over again, this is along the lines of what I’d want to say, not that it might be welcomed. Bishop…

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  7th Nov 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Bishop Spong, Buddhism, Christianity, Einstein, Faith, God, Hope, Humanity, Religion, Tribalism