The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

The virgin birth understood as literal biology makes Christ's divinity as traditionally understood impossible. Spong's calendar has him lecturing around the world. Haines Archdeacon) ISBN 1-878282-14-X
1987 – Consciousness and Survival: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the possibility of Life Beyond Biological Death (edited by John S.

He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines. John Shelby "Jack" Spong (born June 16 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church.