Tried for Heresy A 21st Century Journey of Faith

Andrew Furlong's story is a fascinating one. It pits a profoundly honest spiritual search against a frightened ecclesiastical hierarchy that somehow believes that it has to be God's defender. That hierarchy does not recognize that the timeless experience of God can never be captured in the time warped explanations of human beings, even those human beings who create Bibles and Creeds and who pontificate regularly in God's name. Andrew Furlong has broken open the faith traditions of yesterday, exposed its idolatry and issued an invitation to his readers to walk beyond the limiting barriers of religious fear into the life giving mystery of God.

The Rt. Rev. John S. Spong, 8th Bishop of Newark