Bay Area Reporter: Episcopal bishop and LGBTQ ally John Shelby Spong dies
Bishop John Shelby Spong, a liberal theologian and ally who championed women's and LGBTQ ordinations and rights, died September 12 peacefully in his sleep at his Richmond, Virginia home. He was 90. Mr ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org: Remembering John Shelby Spong, Liberal Theologian, Episcopal Bishop, And Advocate Of LGBTQ Inclusion
Bishop John Shelby Spong died earlier this month. Remembering John Shelby Spong, Liberal Theologian, Episcopal Bishop, And Advocate Of LGBTQ Inclusion Bishop John Shelby Spong died earlier this month.
Remembering John Shelby Spong, Liberal Theologian, Episcopal Bishop, And Advocate Of LGBTQ Inclusion
In 1977, Spong became one of the first American bishops to ordain a woman into the clergy. In 1989, he was the first to ordain an openly gay man.... Remembering John Shelby Spong, Episcopal bishop and ...
Retired Episcopal bishop and pioneer of progressive Christianity, Bishop John Shelby Spong, will lead a day-long event Nov. 17, “Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World,” at Trinity Cathedral ...
Maverick bishop jousts at latest foe: Scripture. THE SINS OF SCRIPTURE: Exposing the Bible’sTexts of Hateto Reveal theGod of Love John Shelby Spong HarperSanFrancisco, 315 pp.; $24.95 Spong contends ...
John Shelby Spong, prodigious author, frequent guest on national talk shows and former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, N.J., is returning to Helena this weekend, as guest speaker in the ...
A few years ago the Episcopal bishop of Newark John Shelby Spong penned a book entitled Why Christianity Must Change or Die Spong argued that Christianity would inevitably decline unless it abandoned ...