I read this book while dating a gay christian in the middle 1990s. (A mistake I will not repeat.) The Bishop earned my admiration for his completely commonsensical approach to interpreting his denomination's patchwork of responses to QUILTBAG persons in their congregations expressing their needs and wants for services provided to cishet people without question: marriage, baptism, the like.

It did not take.

Nonetheless, he tried, and was most eloquent and persuasive in his reasoning. The thunderation of the Haters was comforting to the small and evil, of course, and as religion would vanish if it were not in service to the lowest (term used advisedly) common (see previous) denominator, it prevailed. There has been, I'm told, progress made but I'm not involved in any way anymore so...whatever.

Bishop Spong has died. He was 90. I hope y'all's gawd receives him with joy and celebration and honors him for believing the best about others and doing his best to bring it forth in them as in himself. ( )

Sexualidad y vida familiar

This is a book that I was very much looking forward to. Being on the heels of reading his autobiography, I anticipated some orthodoxy from him which was not found in Here I Stand(although understandable as this was not the place for that). Unfortunately, what I found was a book that had some good general arguments, but did not have much support to them. I was eagerly hoping that this book would open my eyes farther open to a theology which was open while still having a strong foundation. This seemed to be a mile wide and an inch deep however. Spong failed to write a book that was accessible for anyone but his normal followers and as such I would estimate did not convince many to embrace a loving and open response to the different items of sexuality discussed here. With that said, there were still good points made and I am starting to understand better from a theological perspective the inclusivity Jesus offered/offers(my heart's understanding of this was much more progressive in this manner than my head) ( )

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