John Shelby Spong
Observers, detractors and preachers of religion who died in 2021
By Adelle M. Banks — December 30, 2021
(RNS) — Prominent figures in the world of religion who died in 2021.
Pastoral as well as radical, Bishop Spong gave priests ‘room to exist’
By Cynthia Black — September 15, 2021
(RNS) — The space he created for stretching boundaries was not only theological, but personal.
Bishop Spong: Theology without limit or bound
By John C. Dorhauer — September 14, 2021
(RNS) — Here was a bishop putting into words answers to the questions I had asked all my life.
Bishop John Shelby Spong, firebrand who championed LGBTQ inclusion, has died
By Bob Smietana — September 12, 2021
(RNS) — Spong made headlines when he ordained the first openly gay male priest in the Episcopal Church.
Can you question the Virgin Birth and still be a Christian?
By Kimberly Winston — December 23, 2014
(RNS) Why is the Virgin Birth the lynchpin of Christianity? Was it miracle or metaphor? And can you call yourself a Christian if you can't accept the idea of the Virgin Birth?
Can you question the Resurrection and still be a Christian?
By Kimberly Winston — April 16, 2014
(RNS) Many Christians struggle with how to understand the Resurrection -- as something literal or metaphorical. How literally must one take the Gospel story of Jesus’ return to be called a Christian?
An aging maverick, Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong has no regrets
By David Gibson — October 10, 2013
MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. (RNS) Many of the views that once turned the former Episcopal bishop of Newark into a modern-day heretic are now regarded as so matter-of-fact that they barely occasion much notice.
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