Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile, (Paperback)

from beccabgood1

John Shelby Spong is one of my heroes, and this is the book that first introduced me to his work. It is a deeply personal, yet also scholarly and thoughtful account of how his theological views gra...

from greeniezona

William James would say that the reason I like Bishop Spong so much is that because he reconfirms all of my already existing prejudices. But this book rang like a revelation to me. At a time when I...

from bke

The Christianity formulated in a 1st century desert is totally inadequate to life after two thousand years of progress in science and knowledge. Spong details the inadequacies of Christianity and i...

from HarryMacDonald

Spong writes as if he thinks he's the smartest one in the room. He isnn't; he's merely the most belligerent and egotistical. That conceded, his ideas have some value, in their own right, and to sha...

from scottcholstad

Some good points, but frankly they felt a little labored, as though the author was trying TOO HARD to prove his point when he really didn't have to, and as a result, not enough issues were addresse...