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	CCLEC Publications -- Why I Feel Sorry for Bishop Spong
		Spong not only holds many positions that I find deeply mistaken and disturbing, he defends those positions in a grandstanding manner that produces understandable anger among his critics.
		Somehow Spong picked up the amazing idea that the orderly world of natural laws that modern science describes is incompatible with belief in a God who created that world and is capable of acting in it.
		Spong brings to mind theologian Rudolf Bultmann's infamous (and ridiculous) claim that it is impossible to believe in miracles and at the same time use electrical lights.
	www.episcopalian.org /cclec/paper-evans.htm (1124 words)

	News Item: Bishop Spong Papers
		Bishop Spong, who has been one of the most controversial figures in his own Church, is a popular theologian who has reached wide audiences of Christians seeking new ways of understanding faith in a highly secularized society.
		Spong's intellectual and moral perspective is rooted not only in his experience but in contact with progressive theology, particularly the Jesus Seminar, and from currents in evolutionary theory.
		Bishop Spong's papers arrived at the Archives as two separate accessions, one in 2000 at the time of his retirement as diocesan, and a 2002 transfer of assorted memorabilia, writings, and accolades gathered in 37 scrapbooks.
	www.episcopalarchives.org /spong.html (639 words)

	Whosoever Magazine
		Spong's response was that his faith is in a non-theistic God who is the source of life, the source of love, and, in the words of Paul Tillich, the Ground of All Being.
		Spong also spoke about how his faith is grounded in his own experience of God, and how all of our images, creeds, and dogmas of God are pale, imperfect relections of the very real "God experience" that people have had throughout history.
		Bishop Spong very graciously responded that in all his friendships and relationships with gay and lesbian people, he has been the one who has benefited the most.
	www.whosoever.org /v10i1/spong.shtml (1317 words)

	Rescuing the Gospel from Bishop Spong
		Bishop Spong's depiction of Christianity also gives us insight into the kind of theology that motivates gay rights activists, radical feminists, and Marxists to use the Bible in support of their various movements.
		Bishop Spong readily admits that one of the major factors that shapes his view of Scripture is its teaching on human sexuality.
		Spong argues that "the essence of Christ was confused with the form in which that essence was communicated."{10} All the biblical writers got it wrong.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/spong.html (2182 words)

	Rescuing the Gospel from Bishop Spong - Probe Ministries
		Bishop Spong's depiction of Christianity also gives us insight into the kind of theology that motivates gay rights activists, radical feminists, and Marxists to use the Bible in support of their various movements.
		Bishop Spong readily admits that one of the major factors that shapes his view of Scripture is its teaching on human sexuality.
		Spong argues that "the essence of Christ was confused with the form in which that essence was communicated."{10} All the biblical writers got it wrong.
	www.probe.org /docs/spong.html (2186 words)

	Bishop Spong Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bishop Spong challenges the church to move with him, convinced that if the church remains where it is now, the Christian faith will die.
		Bishop Spong is the author of several bestselling books which have sold more than 650,000 copies combined, including Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and Here I Stand, a memoir of his journey to the reasoned, loving Christianity he has preached for decades.
		Bishop Spong has received numerous honors, including being named Quatercentenary Scholar by Cambridge University in 1992 and Humanist of the Year in 1999.
	www.firstparishnorwell.org /spongbio.html (424 words)

	BISHOP SPONG by Paul Richardson
		Bishop Spong is no great thinker but his frequent outbursts do help to shed some light on the crisis facing Anglicanism and on the role of bishops.
		When Bishop Spong speaks of Christian doctrine, he gives no sign of believing that Christianity is a revealed faith and that the scriptures and tradition have authority because they witness to this revelation.
		Bishops also need to be aware of the ‘signs of the times’, of what the Spirit is saying to us in movements in the secular world.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/francis_gardom/jy98spng.htm (1434 words)

	Beliefnet.com
		John Shelby Spong, D.D., is the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.
		As the author of 14 books, he is the most published member of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
		Bishop Spong tells the story of his first Bible training and getting his first Bible for Christmas.
	www.beliefnet.com /author/author_44.html (901 words)

	John Shelby Spong on The Paula Gordon Show
		Bishop Spong calls himself a God-intoxicated man. He is confident there is a spiritual dimension in reality with which he can be in touch.
		Bishop Spong articulates his conviction that there is a spiritual dimension in reality that he can be in touch with, the dimension he calls God.
		Bishop Spong has practiced his loving ideas in our lives and we are grateful for his many kindnesses.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/spong (1142 words)

	Lambeth Daily News highlights - 28 July 1998
		Bishop Spong came under fire early in the Conference because of his strong support for the full acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Church, and his criticism of African bishops' understanding of Scripture, which he saw as out of touch with modern scholarship and scientific theory.
		Bishop Spong has been in the crosshairs of conservatives since last November when he engaged in a caustic exchange of letters with the Archbishop of Canterbury over homosexuality.
		Bishop Spong said he had paid two visits to Africa and was impressed with the vitality of the churches' witness and ministry, particularly given the economic hardships and human rights violations they must deal with.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/Lambeth1998/Lambeth-Daily/28 (528 words)

	Rowan William's Response to Bishop Spong
		Bishop Spong has nailed his '12 theses' to the Internet, and urged the Church to debate them.
		Spong clearly has no time for the empty-tomb tradition; so it is no surprise that he also dismisses the virginal conception (though why on earth this makes Jesus's divinity 'impossible' I fail to understand).
		Spong's account of classical Christian faith simply colludes with such ignorance in a way that cannot surely reflect his own knowledge of it.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/13880.htm (2506 words)

	bishop Shelby Spong
		Spong was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1952 and received his Master of Divinity degree in 1955 from the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.
		Bishop Spong's writings and teachings are on the authority of the Bible, God, History, the Virgin Birth, the resurrection of Jesus, culture, sexuality, and sin.
		Bishop Spong at times sounds like Schuller in that he falls for the premise of love without truth and so he rows upstream with one oar in the water bringing a message of reformation without Christ.
	www.letusreason.org /Poptea3.htm (7040 words)

	Carey warns bishop of conflict on gay rights
		AN American bishop was condemned by the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday for seeking to generate division in the Church over the rights of homosexuals.
		Bishop Spong, who defies Church teaching by ordaining homosexuals, accused the primates of acting out of prejudice, fear and ignorance in their teaching.
		Bishop Spong is one of a number of Episcopal bishops who believe that faithful homosexual relationships should have equal status in the Church with heterosexual marriages.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/11/25/ngay25.html (534 words)

	WCAS - What's Wrong with Bishop Spong?
		Bishop Spong is well known for ordaining practising homosexuals, denying the bodily resurrection and virginal conception of Christ, and for deriving his moral code from modern human experience rather than the Bible.
		Spong claims that Matthew's belief in the virginal conception was derived from a mistranslation of Is. 7:14 'a virgin ('almàh) shall conceive...'.
		Spong endorsed Judith Dale's comments that the scientific arguments for homosexuality amounted to a form of oppression and were therefore unwanted by a large section of the homosexual community.
	www.christian-apologetics.org /html/Whats_wrong_Spong.htm (13723 words)

	Bishop Spong: A Man of Courage
		But the future Bishop Spong would continue to be a thoughtful boy, and he needed to develop his own strength.
		Bishop Spong took these courageous stands, risking his physical and professional safety, time and again for years.
		Bishop Spong retired from his position as Bishop of Newark in the year 2000.
	wsuu.org /sermonSpong.html (3056 words)

	Bishop Shelby Spong in Tasmania :: ABC Tasmania
		John Shelby Spong is currently in Australia to discuss his most recent book 'A New Christianity for a New World' and visited the ABC studios in Hobart to have a chat with morning presenter Tim Cox.
		Bishop Spong believes the one thing all people of all races and all religions have in common, is humanity.
		Regarding the current situation in Iraq, Bishop Spong feels the war in Iraq is likely to create more terrorists rather than rid the world of terrorism.
	www.abc.net.au /tasmania/stories/s977900.htm (392 words)

	"Bishop Spong: A Robust Critique" A response to Spong's 'Why Christianity Must Change or Die' - by Sean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Spong's a priori assumption that this extraordinary individual could have developed in the absence of the Abba who is so passionately addressed is psychologically spurious and nowhere justified in his book.
		Spong is fundamentally unreliable in relation to the core text of his profession, and perversely so, simply to serve the needs of his rhetoric.
		Significantly Spong gives no adequate analysis of the profound evils by which humanity is currently beset - in particular the impact of human selfishness upon community in the First world, upon the material suffering of the third - and upon the internal and external stability of both.
	www.btinternet.com /~sm.oconaill/othpieces/Spong.htm (5500 words)

	What's Wrong With Bishop Spong? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bishop Spong is often described as a great scholar and intellectual giant who ‘has the guts to tell it like it is’ (see back cover of Living in Sin [LS — see the bibliography for abbreviations of Spong’s books]), whereas all Christians who oppose him are ignorant ‘fundamentalists’ and ‘literalizers’.
		Spong ignores the fact that the deity could by a further chain of miraculous interventions deal with the alleged physical consequences”God could probably have slowed the atmosphere, oceans and magma at the same rate as the solid parts of the earth.
		Spong criticised the Gospel writers for allegedly inventing the character of Judas Iscariot the betrayer as an excuse to persecute the Jews.
	www.answersingenesis.org /Docs/1119.asp (14774 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Albert Mohler's Weblog
		Spong pulled no punches, rejecting the Bible as an adequate guide to human sexuality and insisting that the ancient Scriptures are simply too out of date to be relevant in today's world.
		Once Spong argued that the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality could be overcome, it was a short jump to argue that homosexuals should be eagerly welcomed into the church and its ministry, and that liturgical rites for the blessing of same sex unions should be developed and embraced.
		Spong is "on the fringe of the tradition," said the Reverend Don Lyon, rector of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in DeLand.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/mohler/1310622.html (1909 words)

	Episcopal Church: Spong's 12 Theses
		Although Spong's influence on the Episcopal Church is significant, the "12 Theses" should not be considered representative of anybody's views except his own.
		First, Spong styles himself a judge of the church, but that is not his actual role.
		While Spong's published positions are well outside any meaningful definition of the Christian faith, this has not taken him outside the [Episcopal] church.
	www.adherents.com /largecom/epis_12theses.html (1936 words)

	Bishop Spong at Australian Catholic University - Why?
		Bishop John Shelby Spong ordains active homosexuals, has been in the forefront of women's ordination campaigns and writes prolifically against the foundations of Christianity.
		The holding of the Spong lectures on official Catholic property in fact defied a recently issued (June 7) Vatican document "The Church's presence in University and in University Culture".
		The holding of Bishop Spong's talks at McAuley Campus negated ACU's claim to be "rigorously serious" in its scholarship and also undermined its "Catholic identity".
	www.ad2000.com.au /articles/1994/aug1994p7_832.html (812 words)

	VirtueOnline - News - News - Bishop Spong Attacks Kentucky Priest for Promoting the Creeds
		Bishop Spong maligned a community of faith he has never visited and accused me, someone with whom he's never even spoken, of violating the freedom of speech of my parishioners.
		In his newest book Spong is critical of the clergy at St. Frances because they actually believe that the Bible is revealed truth and that Christianity involves certain theological propositions which are to be upheld by the ordained.
		Spong may be a brother to some Steve,but like any other salesman of doctrinal novelty(2 Cor.2:17) he tries to smear his opponents(evangelical conservative Christians)or make them look small as he spouts his arrogance.
	www.virtueonline.org /portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2603 (3153 words)

	Bishop banned by Hollingworth to preach here - National - smh.com.au
		Bishop Spong, the former bishop of Newark, New Jersey, has created international controversy among Christians for saying first-century concepts of the Bible such as Jesus' virgin birth and resurrection were outmoded.
		But two years on from his ban, Bishop Spong, who is staying with Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, has been invited to preach at St John's Cathedral this Sunday, as well as two other Anglican churches.
		He said Bishop Spong's pioneering of ordaining women clergy and openness to homosexual clergy and marriage in the church would be key topics during his visit.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/01/1064819964934.html (402 words)

	Archbishop living in the past: Spong - National - smh.com.au
		Retired US Episcopal bishop and author John Shelby Spong said Dr Jensen was living in the past with his views on homosexuality.
		Bishop Spong, the former bishop of Newark, New Jersey, was banned from Brisbane Anglican churches by former Anglican Archbishop Peter Hollingworth in 2001.
		Bishop Spong said he was offended by Pope John Paul II's warning to the head of the Anglican church over the weekend of the difficulties in their relations over ordaining gay priests.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/07/1065292562645.html (449 words)

	John Shelby Spong on the burial of Jesus
		John Shelby Spong is the former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark (1976-2000).
		Bishop Robinson’s unambiguous ‘cri de coeur,’ that so buttressed everything he wrote, became central to my thinking about faith throughout my entire adult life.
		JOHN A. I am a lifelong Episcopalian with one foot firmly planted in liberal theological views and the principles of Progressive Christianity and one foot planted in conservative thought and traditional orthodoxy.
	www.shroudstory.com /faq-spong-on-burial.htm (3552 words)

	Bishop Spong to Archbishop Carey, January 26, 1998
		But the silence about the outrages of the Kuala Lumpur statement, coupled with your own rhetoric while in America, made me feel that something needed to be said to give some perspective to the debate that is before the Church.
		I have now had two exchanges with Bishop Peter Lee of South Africa that indicate the possibility that someone is listening.
		Please be aware that scripture is still being used by what you call "theologians of the highest rank" to demonstrate the second class status of women and thus their unfitness to be priests and bishops of the Church.
	www.andromeda.rutgers.edu /~lcrew/spong2abc0126.html (1303 words)

	Albert Mohler's Blog
		Bishop Tiny Muskens of Breda, a former missionary to Indonesia, suggested that conflict between Christians and Muslims could be lessened if Dutch Catholics followed the lead of some Christians in Muslim-dominated lands and adopted Allah as the preferred name for God..
		The heretic is the retired bishop of Newark, New Jersey, The Rt.
		Bishop Spong is visiting Australia at the invitation of Australia's Anglican Primate Phillip Aspinall of Brisbane.
	www.albertmohler.com /rss/blog.php (2862 words)

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