"Scholar"?? I'm afraid you're quite delusional.
The man is a blaspheming liar and perverter of the Bible -- IOW, he's a tool of Satan.
"Actually he's [Spong] a well known Biblical scholar and devoutly religious from an early age, but he's getting on in years."
I was forced to read this heretics biblical porno trash "why christianity must change or die." I have never read so many tendentious non sequitur arguments all packed into one book.
Even the Jesus seminar liberals should consider bishop SongBob an embarassment