[Tax-chick]

I didn't know he was from around here. How creepy.

[DeFault User]

He prayed fervently, he said, for one of his stepdaughters who was serving in the armed forces in Iraq.

Spong said he seeks to call Christians to a new understanding of God - a God who is the all-powerful source of life but doesn't intervene to win wars, punish evildoers or bestow riches on the blessed.

What is he praying for if there is no chance of intervention? Seems that Spong or his religion is a bit schizophrenic.

[afnamvet]

Spong said he seeks to call Christians to a new understanding of God - a God who is the all-powerful source of life but doesn't intervene to win wars, punish evildoers or bestow riches on the blessed.

Spong needs to read and understand the bible.

[Pyro7480]

The public face of Christianity is being shaped by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict is an evangelical!?

[AnAmericanMother]

Memo to Spong: "I really resent having the Christian faith being taken over by people who identify" as non-Christians.

[topcat54]

"I really resent having the Christian faith being taken over by people who identify with endorsing sodomy and killing innocent, preborn children."

[stan_sipple]

if you are a progressive unfundamentalist christian it is ok to call Opposing African bishops superstitious spear chuckers if they disagree with you

[JCEccles]

"There is an enormous hunger for something besides fundamentalism," he said. "My job, as I |see it, is to help people find this God."

He had 24 years to do it, running his own little Episcopal diner in a heavily populated corner of New Jersey to feed the spiritually famished.

What did Episcopal Church rolls decline by during that period? Twenty to twenty-five percent?

Evangelical and conservative church membership skyrocketed during that same period.

If it is true that "there is an enormous hunger for something besides fundamentalism," the spiritually famished sure have a wacky way of showing it. And in any event they're not lining up at Spong's soup kitchen for the slop he's been slinging.

[Graves]

Maybe Spong and Fonda could join each other on Fonda's road trip and do some sort of a duet or a singalong

"Ah been 'buked and Ah been scorned..."

[Podkayne]

"If God is an interventionist God, then it gets to be very scary when you ask, 'Whose prayers are going to change God's mind?'Ÿ" he said.

Be afraid, very afraid Bishop Spong.

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Is your God the God of the Hebrews or Allah?

The God of the Jews is interventionist, jealous demanding, punishing etc.

Too bad Spong is illiterate and can't read the Bible or anything else historically relevant about our God and his history with humans.

[nosofar]

"...who identify with hating gay people ..."

I would really be curious as to how many people who oppose homosexual marriage actually hate homosexuals. I'll take for granted there are some, but I'm pretty sure it's a minority. However, I don't see any way to get any kind of objective number.

[nosofar]

He said Jesus stands at the center of his life.

I wonder if Jesus' existence is even needed for Spong's personal theology.