The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against t…

- John Shelby Spong

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery o…

- John Shelby Spong

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

- John Shelby Spong

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

- John Shelby Spong

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you…

- John Shelby Spong

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

- John Shelby Spong

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather e…

- John Shelby Spong

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on …

- John Shelby Spong

The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay an…

- John Shelby Spong