So what I like best about John Shelby Spong is that the man speaks truth with love and compassion, like when he gently takes the Archbishop of Canterbury to task for removing celibate gay priest Jeffrey John as suffragan bishop of Reading.
His actions have revealed a fatal character flaw. He has no courage, no backbone and no ability to lead. Seldom have I watched a quicker collapse of potential. It was an abdication of leadership so dramatic as to be breathtaking.
But even after this brotherly chastisement, he offers hope for the future:
"He is now destined to be a long-serving but ineffective and empty man who has been revealed to be incapable of carrying the responsibility placed upon him. Leaders have only one opportunity to make a first impression. Rowan Williams has failed that test miserably."
Spong....seriously babe, join the Unitarians. No one will stop you.
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