By The Living Church staff One of the best-known and most controversial Episcopal bishops in the last half century, the Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, died in his sleep September 12 at the age of 90. He served as the VIII Bishop of Newark from 1979 to 2000. Bishop Spong's assertively liberal perspective of Christianity, and his rejection of the literal truth of the Virgin Birth … [Read more...] about John Spong, Liberal Icon & Conservative Target, Dies
Archives for September 13, 2021
17 Pentecost, Year B: Heaven and Earth
SUNDAY’S READINGS | September 19, 2021 Prov. 31:10-31 or Wis. 1:16-2:1, 12-22 or Jer. 11:18-20 Ps. 1 or Ps. 54 James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a Mark 9:30-37 Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly. Help us, O God, to set our mind on things that are above, above space and time, above all need, above the cycle of life and death. Take us to that … [Read more...] about 17 Pentecost, Year B: Heaven and Earth
A No-Downside Proposition
By Sarah Cornwell A Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 4:1-11 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘One … [Read more...] about A No-Downside Proposition