My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway. John Shelby Spong challengechurchepiscopal Change image and share on social
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. John Shelby Spong alumnusassociationaudience Change image and share on social
I am a child of the 21st century. John Shelby Spong 21stcenturychild Change image and share on social
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf. John Shelby Spong bodyfairwaygolf Change image and share on social
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches. John Shelby Spong academiachurchcommonplace Change image and share on social
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. John Shelby Spong diminishenhanceevil Change image and share on social
I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. John Shelby Spong beingclaimgod Change image and share on social
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. John Shelby Spong detrimentfamilypeople Change image and share on social
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. John Shelby Spong charlecomplicationconsciousness share on social
It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish. John Shelby Spong accomplisheasygod Change image and share on social
