[The Right Stuff]

Spong is one of the worst. I cannot believe the Church didn't see through his pretensions and defrock him immediately.

[AnAmericanMother]

IIRC, they did have an ecclesiastical trial and acquitted him on the grounds of "free speech."

Idiots.

Spong is perfectly described as the Apostate Bishop in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce. (I don't think he had Spong particularly in mind, TGD was written much earlier)