This is FRESH AIR. Now we're going to listen to Terry's interview with John Shelby Spong, an Episcopal bishop who championed the acceptance of women and LGBTQ people in the clergy. He also promoted a ...

(RNS) — Bishop John Shelby Spong, a bestselling author and cleric known for his progressive theology and his support of LGBTQ clergy in the Episcopal Church, has died. He was 90. “It is with great ...

At his funeral in Morristown this Friday, John Shelby Spong, the former Episcopal bishop of northern New Jersey, will be eulogized as a hero who courageously fought for a more inclusive church. But to ...

The Right Rev. John Shelby Spong, a liberal theologian and retired bishop who shook up the modern Episcopal Church, championing the inclusion of women and LGBTQ people in the clergy while promoting a ...

A Manifesto! The Time Has Come! I have made a decision. I will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the church with anyone. I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from ...

John Shelby Spong, the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark and the author of over 20 books, died at his home in Richmond, Va. on September 12. He was 90. Richmond’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Church announced ...

Spong, the iconoclastic former Episcopal bishop of Newark, details in this impassioned work both his "deep commitment to Jesus of Nazareth" and his "deep alienation from the traditional symbols" that ...

Bishop John Shelby Spong, an Episcopal Church prelate whose liberal views rankled orthodox Episcopalians and others, died in his sleep Sunday morning, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Morris Plains, New ...

The Right Rev. John Shelby Spong, a liberal theologian and former bishop who shook up the modern Episcopal Church, championing the inclusion of women and LGBTQ people in the clergy while promoting a ...