Bishop Spong: Theology without limit or bound
Here was a bishop putting into words answers to the questions I had asked all my life. Read the article from Religion News Service here.
Bishop John Shelby Spong in 2006. Photo by Scott Griessel/Wikipedia/Creative Commons
I first came to know John Shelby Spong the way many young, progressive clergy did: through his writings. I was only three years out of seminary, serving a very rural congregation in a very conservative part of the country, when I read him for the first time. His book, “Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism,” was recommended to me by a friend.
It transformed me entirely.