Drew the heptagrams and lit the LED tealights.

Rewatched Jack Spong at Chautauqua in 2014.

Jack pushed a non-supernatural Christianity.
And has certain of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul using metaphors in stories.
Not all Biblical literalists appreciate Jack.

Jack goes through Jesus's transgressive women ancestors in this vid. And Mary

From before Trump's 2016 election. Many weren't disillusioned.
#JackSpong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkx5kZe4ui0

John Shelby Spong - The Mother of Jesus: A Symbol of Judaism

John Shelby Spong explains how the 4th Gospel creates a symbol from the presence of Christ's mother. This is the fourth lecture of a five lecture series. Thi...

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In the Christian #LiturgicalYear, we're now got a a woman giving birth. Everyone, and all of our ancestors, made it through some such event.

#JackSpong in the video, from a naturalist (non-supernatural), historical (there was a Jesus) view, looks at how this woman was presented in the New Testament writings.

One of Spong's ideas is that some stories of Jesus were developed later to make a liturgical year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkx5kZe4ui0g

John Shelby Spong - The Mother of Jesus: A Symbol of Judaism

John Shelby Spong explains how the 4th Gospel creates a symbol from the presence of Christ's mother. This is the fourth lecture of a five lecture series. Thi...

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