When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.
John Shelby SpongThe virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
John Shelby SpongOh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
John Shelby SpongI do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.
John Shelby Spong