John Shelby Spong, who died Sept. 12, led the Episcopal Diocese in Newark for 21 years and was an early supporter of LGBTQ rights and female priests.

John Shelby Spong, a charismatic Episcopal bishop who pushed his followers to accept women and L.G.B.T.Q. clergy, and who later called on them to reject sacrosanct ideas like Jesus’ virgin birth ...

Spong quickly becomes one of the most committed Marcionists in church history. (Marcion, A.D. ca. 110-160, rejected all of the Old Testament and large portions of the New as crude and a stumbling ...

Spong was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1931, and attended fundamentalist churches as a child. After his father died when Spong was 12, he found a mentor in an Episcopal priest named ...

In 1977, Spong became one of the first American bishops to ordain a woman into the clergy. In 1989, he was the first to ordain an openly gay man. Spong died Sept. 12. Originally broadcast in 1996.

Spong doesn’t think any of the Gospels are literal retellings of the life of Christ. “All of them were written 40 to 70 years after the Crucifixion, in a language that Jesus did not speak, ...

Spong stayed away for many years, but has been approached by other companies since. Karate Combat presented a unique style that got him interested. He faces Sam Alvey, ...

Tyrone Spong couldn’t believe what he was reading. Even in the age of instant results being made available online, the unbeaten heavyweight was surprised to read from an outside party about his ...

Tyrone Spong (right) is a decorated kickboxer. Light Heavyweights Tyrone Spong (0-0) vs. Travis Bartlett (7-2) The Matchup: Spong enters his MMA debut with the moniker “King of the Ring,” and ...

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