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...Spong has Noble Spirit...
...understand how the words of John Shelby Spong could be met with skepticism or even hostility (Op-Ed, Mar. 6). But nothing could surprise me more than J. Stuart Buck's opinion that Spong is "singularly unqualified" to deliver the W. B. Noble lectures, or that the Spong is out to destroy the heritage of the Episcopal Church. That is, unless by "destroying heritage," Buck means opening the Church's ranks to any person who feels the call to service, male or female, gay or straight. Or perhaps he means making the Church a place of discussion open to those...
...elements of Spong's book that Buck finds so "disturbing" naturally come up when one has an honest discussion about church life. Spong correctly pointed out that most young Christians who go to college either clutch the dogma more closely and give up their modernity, or let go of their Christianity altogether...
This contempt for disagreement is entirely typical of Spong. After a recent lecture, a friend of mine had the temerity to question Spong's casual dismissal of Genesis as unscientific. "I don't talk to fundamentalists," was Spong's reply, though such a word would hardly describe my friend...
...Spong is hardly an appropriate choice to deliver a lecture founded to extend the "influence of Jesus as 'the Way, the Truth, and the Life.'" Though many people may disagree with the Noble Lectures' purpose, we should not countenance such a misuse of funds that Harvard accepted without reservation...