We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.
John Shelby SpongThe Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
John Shelby SpongHysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.
John Shelby Spong