God in the 21st Century: Bishop John Shelby Spong at UO

Bishop John Shelby Spong presented two public lectures as the 2005 - 2006 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities. On May 24th he spoke on "Who is the Popular God in Public Life in the 21st Century?" in Columbia Hall at the University of Oregon campus. Bishop Spong, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. His admirers acclaim his legacy as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary lay person—he's considered a champion of an inclusive faith by many, both inside and outside the Christian church. In his latest book, "The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Discover the God of Love" (Harper San Francisco, April 2005), this visionary thinker seeks to introduce people to a proper way to engage the holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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[WeShallOvercome10001]

Dear brother John,

I thank God for your work. Having watched this and other videos of you, I have started to feel freed from the preassures laid upon me by many fundamentalist circles around me. It has been a great relief and an inspiring hope to listen to you.

May god bless you

Frank from Germany

[georgeamolochitis]

i thank god for this man.  i am always uplifted when i hear him speak.

[HausofJon]

What an honor to have been at this lecture. I have been reading and admiring Bishop Spong's work for years! So liberating!

[secondthes]

"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."

This man is an unbeliever. He identifies Christianity with sin. He denies the power of the Holy Spirit. He has a form of godliness but denies the power thereof. He seeks the approval of man, not God. That outfit is a Halloween Costume.

[alleycatalog]

This guy is AWESOME!!! Trolls will always hate!

[BaloughOliver]

@whyteay

absolutly nothing.

[whyteay]

@BaloughOliver And your proof of this is what?

[BaloughOliver]

@BaloughOliver or some shit like that. the multi-verse is infinitly vast, therefore an infinite number of possabillities exist across the infinite sea of time. basicaly, ALL THINGS are happening at ALL times. So, therefore there must be a god gods and no gods in some universe out there.....

[BaloughOliver]

@whyteay

fuck you, im no christian by ANY means. But this guy is getting closer to the truth, which is that there is no god, all matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration. There is now such thing as death and we are the imagination of our selves. This 'world' as we call it is no more than a ride................