Bishop John Spong's Bully Pulpit

April, 2001

Bishop John Spong's Bully PulpitEpiscopal Bishop John Spong grew up in the same Charlotte, North Carolina neighborhood as evangelist Billy Graham. Spong recalls that the older kid down the street found Bob Jones University insufficiently conservative, so he transferred to an even more fundamentalist Bible college. Spong's ecclesiastical career took a different path. He has come to be known as one of the country's most liberal religious leaders, outspoken in his advocacy of women and gay people i...