My mind, my integrity, my intellectual questioning, and my God-experience all come together in this new image. My religious schizophrenia is at an end. Theism is dead, I joyfully proclaim, but God is real. When I stand in the presence of this God who inhabits the heart of life, I know just why I define myself as a joyful, passionate, convinced believer in the reality of God.
— John Shelby Spong, A New Christianity for a New World