I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.
John Shelby SpongAs for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.
John Shelby SpongThe church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.
John Shelby SpongOh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
John Shelby Spong