I see the super liberal Episcopal bishop John Spong has died.
It would be very cool if some evidential message from him to his family would turn up via a medium in the next year or so - but mediumship seems to have fallen out of favour in the last few years, with high profile mediums like that John Edward fading into the background. And besides, if Houdini didn't get a message to us from the other side, why should I expect a liberal bishop to do any better?
I remain leery of the non-realist gospel (so to speak) as the way forward for the Christian churches: I don't really see much reason to change what I wrote about this topic (Spong got a mention) in 2007, in my early blogging days.
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Spong was not a super liberal. He was something but NEVER a christian.
He didn't believe in a virgin birth nor in the resurrection nor for that matter in anything in the bible.
Yes, he seemed to have ended up in the peculiar position of those priests and ministers who lose their faith entirely but hold on to their church post for - what? Fame? Out of a misguided desire to lead his flock into the scientific age?
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