Unbelievable: A Conversation with Critic of Christianity, Bishop John Shelby Spong

Published: April 15, 2018, 1:20 p.m.

b'Bishop John Shelby Spong has been on the leading edge of progressive Christianity.\\nOver the decades he has shared his own honest journey with faith, doubt, and social activism as an Episcopal priest, bishop, and author. Some of his many books include: Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture, and Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile.\\nHe is the author of the newly released, Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today.\\nThis conversation with Bishop Spong is the fourth of five interviews in my series, Revisioning Christianity.\\nAlready we heard from\\xa0John Dominic Crossan,\\xa0Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East kept the Original Easter Vision,\\nBart Ehrman, author of The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World,\\nand David Skrbina:\\xa0The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul\\u2019s Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years.\\nNext week, I speak with Angela Yarber about the Holy Women Icons Project.\\nAll of those interviews are available on podcast at Progressive Spirit.'