John Shelby Spong was born on 1931-06-16.

John Shelby's birth name is John T. Shelby.

John Shelby Spong wrote a whole book, titled Why Christianity Must Change or Die. He says that with Christians now better informed and more sceptical, religion must cast off its superstitious elements and accept that the Bible is neither infallible nor inerrant. So, Bishop Spong certainly believes religion needs to be changed if it is to survive.

John Shelby was born on February 23, 1958, in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

The Slaughter of the Innocents is in the nativity account in Matthew's Gospel. This somewhat contradicts the story in Luke's Gospel, and John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) says that Matthew was clearly writing Christian midrash.