I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
John Shelby SpongI cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
John Shelby SpongMeine Moral ist diese: verbessert diese Handlung das Leben, oder macht sie es schlechter? Baut sie etwas auf oder reißt sie etwas ein?
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
Moral & EthikJohn Shelby SpongI want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
John Shelby SpongI believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.
John Shelby Spong