Faith Development

Bishop Spong talks at the "Future of the Progressive Church" conference (video)

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Bishop John Shelby Spong spoke at the"Future of the Progressive Church" conference held on August 3, 2013 at the Community Christian Church in Springfield, Missouri.  In his first lecture, "Why Christianity as We Know It is Dying", Bishop Spong sets out why he believes the current message of the church needs to change.

Val Webb’s talk at the Common Dreams conference held in Melbourne, April 2010 (video)

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Dr Val Webb is a theologian and author living in Mudgee, New South Wales.

The Most Pressing Issue Facing Humanity--John Dominic Crossan (video)

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In this excerpt from Living the Questions 2.0, New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan discusses the most pressing issue facing humanity: violence.

The Birth of Christianity: John Dominic Crossan (audio)

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"Is my search for the historical Jesus a threat to faith? Or does it help make faith a possibility for modern men and women?"
In this radio interview, Professor John Dominic Crossan discusses the book “The first Christmas: what the Gospels really teach about Jesus's birth” that he cowrote with Marcus Borg and the historical context of the Jesus narratives.

The interview is in three parts.

Lloyd Geering talks on "Religion, nature and our future" (video)

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Professor Lloyd Geering is a retired New Zealand theologian. In this interview, Professor Geering discusses our relationship with nature and with each other, and the particular challenges facing the human race in the 21st century.

Bishop Spong talks on "On Heaven, Hell and Spiritual Adulthood" (video)

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Recent interview clip from Bishop John Spong.

From the Youtube description, "John Shelby Spong is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. He is a liberal theologian, religion commentator and author. He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and from traditional doctrines. In this clip, he discusses the concept of hell and the role the church has played in keeping it's followers childlike."

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