They should have given this to Roger Corman or maybe Ed Wood and made it into a film.
Posted on 10/08/2005 9:24:01 PM PDT by freedomdefender
Spong's lifelong quest to wrest himself from what he has called his fundamentalist evangelical North Carolina upbringing to understanding God in a radically different way is the subject of a sympathetic new drama, "A Pebble In My Shoe."
The bishop plans to be at Sunday's 5:15 p.m. premiere at the Los Angeles Theater Center, 514 S. Spring St. After the 90-minute performance, Spong will be honored at a reception. He also will sign his latest book, "The Sins of Scripture." Other performances are scheduled for Oct. 15,16, 22 and 23.
Written and directed by Cox, the play is based on Spong's 1999 autobiography, "Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love and Equality." It features actor Stephan Wolfert as the bishop.
Cox said Spong's publisher, HarperSanFrancisco, approached him two years ago about writing a play about the bishop's life. Cox, director of the Los Angeles-based Will & Co. theater ensemble, described himself in an interview as "not a religious fellow."
"Any God who can be killed ought to be killed. That's the message of the play and, I think, that is the message of Jack Spong," Cox said
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We Jews have Michael Lerner, y'all have Jack Spong. My sympathy.
Boy is he in for a big surprise when he checks out :o)
Bishop Dung...ugh
No. Spong's religion, whatever that might be, has only been used to earn him notoreity, to provide him what is probably a pretty comfortable living, and to pave the path to Hell for anyone foolish enough to follow him.
I've got a better title for this play: "A Pain in My....."
This guy has chosen to rewrite Christianity to try to find some justification for his own hedonism. The church should have tossed him out of the backdoor and told him to clean up the mess he made before he left.
Freakin' joke. How did this clown end up as a bishop?
Why Christianity must change or die? Yeah, right.
No APOSTATE ALERT?
Spong's a "bishop"...just like those people who mail in $10 to the Universal Life Church are "reverends"...
They should have given this to Roger Corman or maybe Ed Wood and made it into a film.
"Boy is he in for a big surprise when he checks out :o)"
You are so right. The day he dies he's going to stand naked before Jesus Christ on his Throne, and answer for his life and his words.
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I suspect that when he learns the truth, the weeping and gnashing of teeth will be audible way down here.
"bishop" Spong is lower than Satan's navel.
I sense...hostility.
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