[AnAmericanMother]

Gosh, he sounds like OUR homegrown loonybird, Bishop Spong of Newark. But none of the bishops in the Episcopal Church ever had the guts to chastise him. He retired and at last report was writing a cybersex column (I kid you not).

C.S. Lewis knocked these guys off in one in The Great Divorce. His apostate bishop publicly rejects the Creed and it brings him worldly fame, book deals, etc. Given a last chance to repent by a friend who is sent to rescue him from Hell, he turns his back on salvation and goes back to Hell to write a book on how Jesus would have adopted the bishop's views "if he had lived."

Gee, their names even begin with the same two letters. Suppose there's a connection there . . . ? nah. ;-)

[altura]

That's a great book. Also fun to read.

[altura]

We just finished studying Spong's last book in our Bible class. (Episcopalian, of course.)

We all hated it, but it did make one think as one repudiated all his arguments. By the way, the only source he cited was himself!! (ha) no footnotes.

Our current Presiding Bishop is a joke, and an annoying one.

[stands2reason]

Gosh, he sounds like OUR homegrown loonybird, Bishop Spong of Newark.

I got confused. I was thinking that (Spong) was this guy.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I suggest you look for a sect wherein the leaders not only talk the talk, but do their durndest to walk the walk...and encourage their parishioners to follow in the footsteps of Christ. Don't stay in a flock guarded by wolves.