So I start here.  There is no God external to life.  God, rather, is the inescapable depth and center of all that is.  God is not a being superior to other beings.  God is the Ground of Being itself.  And much flows from this starting place.  The artifacts of the faith of the past must be understood in a new way if they are to accompany us beyond the exile, and those that cannot be understood differently will have to be laid aside.  Time will inform us as to which is which.

John Shelby Spong

“Why Christianity Must Change Or Die”

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