Bishop John Shelby Spong has sold over a million books.\xa0 He has been an outspoken advocate for religious literacy and social change in regards to race, gender, and sexuality. \xa0 In 2013 he published his latest book\xa0, The Fourth Gospel:\xa0 Tales of a Jewish Mystic. \xa0\xa0 Bishop Spong found this gospel \u201calmost repellent\u201d because it has been used to foster an outdated pre-modern view of God, religious exclusivism, literalism, and anti-semitism.\xa0 But when it is seen through the eyes of Jewish mysticism, it comes alive in a relevant way for 21st century seekers.