We knew there was something wrong..........
when we didn’t see his pointy hat. I think United Methodist Bishop C. Joseph Sprague is the bishop who attended the church service in the park across the street from our old house. The kids were not impressed. They didn’t think he looked like a bishop. Now he doesn’t sound like much of a bishop, either.

Twenty-eight United Methodists, including members of the clergy, have filed a complaint calling for the removal of Chicago Bishop C. Joseph Sprague because he allegedly rejected the Christian faith, according to the United Methodist News Service.

The group charges Sprague with appearing to deny the Trinitarian understanding of Jesus as God "in favor of a form of Unitarianism ... that denies the virgin birth and full deity of Christ," according to the group's spokesman, Rev. Thomas Lambrecht of Greenville, Wis.

I hope the United Methodist Book of Discipline allows the bishops’ college to open a can of whup-ass on him. Figuratively and in all due Christian charity, of course.

In a speech Sprague gave last January at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, he caused an uproar when he said "the myth of the virgin birth was not intended as a historical fact." He also said he didn't believe that Jesus' resurrection "involved the resuscitation of his physical body."

The group asked church officials to investigate the matter. If the allegations are sustained, they want Sprague to renounce "his contrary teaching and maintain his teaching within the doctrinal standards of the United Methodist Church, or that he resign (or be removed) from his office and surrender his credentials of ordination."