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• IRD Reports that Bishop Sprague Retires from UMC after Eight-year Decline of his Illinois Conference now Enlightened that Jesus Christ was just another Gandhi - September 8, 2004
  • In Retirement Speech, Sprague Threatens Christians with his Continued Heretical Presence while his Hired Mouthpiece Journalist Blasts "The Enemy" (a.k.a. Christian watchdog IRD) for "Crashing Sprague's Party"  - August 23, 2004
  • "Retiring Bishop" Sprague Says he has No Intention of Fading from the Limelight and Will Continue "Stirring Some Pots" - August 3, 2004
  • Secular Media Paints Retiring Bishop Sprague as Fading Icon - Unfortunately, an Unlikely Picture For UMC - July 17, 2004
  • Heretic Bishop Sprague's Annual Conference "Going To Hell In Handbasket" According To Church Growth Expert At Evangelical Caucus Meeting - June 15, 2004
  • United Methodist Publishing House Promotes New Study Guide For Heretic Bishop's Book Denying Church Doctrine - June 8, 2004
  • UM Bishop Sprague Makes Sudden Retreat from Self-Appointment as D.C. Chaplain - May 21, 2004
  • Nebraska UM Church Invites Dueling Heretics to Preach:  Spong & Sprague  --  UM Pastor and his Church Use God's Money to Promote Heresy  - May 14, 2004
  • Heretic Bishop Sprague Baptizes Children During General Conference, To Promote Homosexuality - May 5, 2004
  • Bishop Sprague to Join Hillary Clinton in Washington D.C. Politics in Fight Against Christianity - This is the direct result of the failure of the renewal establishment to pursue the dismissal of the Bishop Sprague complaint - April 8, 2004
  • With Marching Orders from the "spirit of anti-christ", Bishop Sprague Rallies his followers - April 6, 2004
  • Sprague on the Way to Washington D.C. via Korea:  Political Punditry of Naïveté and Utopianism . . . versus . . . The Grim Realities of North Korea  - April 6, 2004
  • UM Bishop Sprague Demonstrates Misunderstandings of God, Christianity, Wesley, Government, the World, and Reality - March 7, 2004
  • UM Bishop Sprague Warms up Democrat Stump for his new Career Representing UMC in Washington D.C. (beginning Fall 2004, after retirement as bishop) - Is his favorite candidate still Saddam? - January 30, 2004
  • Heretical UM Bishop Sprague Goes to Washington - With Charges Dismissed, Soon To Be Retired Sprague To Become [anti-]Spiritual Head Of Church DC Lobby Org - December 20, 2003
  • UM Bishop Sprague Says that Any Christ (or crust) Will Do - November 22, 2003
  • UM Bishop Sprague Looks for Another Human to Become Fully Divine, saying "Other human beings have the potential to attain the same kind of transcendence that Jesus did" - November 22, 2003
  • Considering Sprague's Retirement? Look at Talbert: Heretical UMC Bishops Don't Retire, They Simply Move On to Decimate New Fields - October 2, 2003
  • Answer to the Sprague Christian Premise (Commentary) - September 29, 2003
  • Concerned Laity of Heretic Bishop's Churches Ask Where's The Recommended Dialogues" To Deal With Heresy - September 16, 2003
  • Progressive Christians (Commentary) - September 10, 2003
  • Christian Exodus from UMC Evident in Bishop Sprague's Northern Illinois Conference - August 30, 2003
  • Northern Illinois Laity Group Exposes There Bishop's Heresies In Local Church Presentations - August 20, 2003
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  • Heretical UM Bishop Ducks Dialogue Prescribed By Review Team - August 19, 2003
  • Bishop Sprague says, Pastors Should Take Freedom to Preach ANY Message they Believe, but Taking Liberty with Sprague's Apportionment Money is a Capital Offense - July 23, 2003 - Also read Bishop Sprague's "toned-down" version on his own official conference website - August 7, 2003
  • UM Bishop Baffled Faithful UM's Not As Anti-Christ As Himself! - August 6, 2003
  • Heresy And The Connection (Commentary) - August 2, 2003
  • Sprague Heresy May Turn UM Denomination Towards Orthodoxy - July 29, 2003
  • Faithful UM Laity Group Gets International Voice With Moody Broadcast Network (MP3 Audio) - July 25, 2003
  • Bishop Sprague says, Pastors Should Take Freedom to Preach ANY Message they Believe, but Taking Liberty with Sprague's Apportionment Money is a Capital Offense - July 23, 2003
  • Bishop Sprague Defines Prototype Clergy for Pastors Who Desire to Advance: Pay 100% Apportionments; Deny Christ; and most of all, Support Sprague - July 23, 2003
  • Northern Illinois Congregations "Draw Line" with Conference Leadership and Stop Funding Bishop Sprague's Shenanigans - July 15, 2003
  • Northern Illinois Lay Leader Admits that Sprague's Heresy is not as Popular Among the Conference Laity as the Liberals Claim - July 1, 2003
  • Bishop Sprague's Heresy Leads Faithful UM's Out - June 26, 2003
  • Northern Illinois Methodists Say "No Apportionment Money" For Disobedient Denomination - June 24, 2003
  • Rather Than Rebuke Episcopal Heresy, UM Leaders Just Want To Talk About It On New Website - June 23, 2003
    +Official UM Dialogue Website
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    +TheMethodistChurch.org
    +UCMPage.org Bulletin Board
    +FaithfulChristianLaity.org
    +Dialogue Which Can Never Be Dialogue (Article)
  • Concerned UM Laity Begin What Heretical Bishop Rejects and Denomination Suggests...Dialogue Regarding Doctrine - June 3, 2003
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  • Unofficial Laity Org Provides "Official" Information Regarding UM Doctrine And Bishops' Heresy - June 1, 2003
  • UM Bishop Sprague Discounts Laity Uprising, Saying they aren't Officially Sanctioned to Conduct Dialogues - Hey Bishop, it's a new world; a group of lowly laity armed with computers can spread a lot of truth! (downloads, too!) - May 28, 2003
  • UM Conservative Confessing Movement Response Optimistic To Official "Unchecking" of Unchecked Sprague Heresies - May 27, 2003
  • UM Women's Division Joins Bishop Sprague in Equating Devout Christians to Terrorists - Proclaiming Christ as the Divine Risen Savior "is dangerous, because it drives 'fundamentalists' to 'attack, harass, ostracize or even kill' those who dissent." - May 23, 2003
  • UM Publishers Promote Bishop's New Heretical Book For Discounts and a Free Study Guide! - Lets hear it for heresy and special UM offers to boot - May 20, 2003
  • UM Bishop Sprague "Comes Out Of The Closet" And Proclaims What All Clergy Are Taught At UM Seminaries - May 16, 2003
  • Media Highlights the Epidemic of Heresy in Mainline Protestantism, UM Bishop Get Spotlight - May 13, 2003
  • Sprague and Other Heretical UM Leaders Must be Stopped because They Endanger the Eternal Lives of Everyone Around Them - If the heretics choose to risk their souls with damnation, that's their choice, but what about the blind followers? a UM Pastor is angry about this -- are you? - May 12, 2003
  • Nicodemus Syndrome (Commentary) - May 4, 2003
  • Heretical UM Bishop Celebrates His Own Celebrity And Promotes New Book At UM Seminary - May 3, 2003
  • President of UM Council of Bishops Tars Faithful UMs Watchdogging Errant Bishops as "Evil Profilers" - (see congruent comments by Bishop Kammerer below) - April 30, 2003
    • UM Bishop Charlene Kammerer Defends Sprague and is Upset that Sprague's "Liberation Theology" was Made Public by the IRD - She states that she doesn't want her theology to be "monitored" by UM members - March 3, 2003
  • UM Agency Eyes Congressional Chaplaincy Opening On Capitol Hill As Opportunity To Inject Effete Bishop Into Liberal Politics - April 25, 2003
  • Name-dropping UM Bishop Sprague Recounts his Political Tour but is Unsure if his Efforts Glorify God - April 25, 2003
  • West Ohio UM Conference Officials Forbid Any Resolutions Dealing With Bishops' Heresy - April 10, 2003
  • Another UM Pastor Calls It Quits - Leaves A Denomination "beyond reform" - April 4, 2003
  • UM Bishop Sprague Arrogantly Groups Bible-believing Christians With Islamic Terrorists, Calls Them Demons and Dangerous  - Sprague says that Christians who believe in Christ's Second Coming are apostate and wants them cleared from the Church (see his #6) - March 21, 2003
  • More Clergy Find Peace Exiting Heretical Denomination (Commentary) - March 13, 2003
  • Summary and Analysis of Joseph Sprague's Affirmations of a Dissenter (Article) - March 7, 2003
  • UM's Weary Of Heresy, Ready To Split, One Way Or Another (Commentary) - March 7, 2003
  • UM's Weary Of Heresy, Leave Disobedient Denomination (Commentary) - March 7, 2003
  • "A Teaspoon Of Water Being Used To Put Out A Fire In A Barn Full Of Hay" (Commentary) - March 5, 2003
  • Heresy and the New Ecumenism (Article) - March 4, 2003
  • UM Bishop Charlene Kammerer Defends Sprague and is Upset that Sprague's "Liberation Theology" was Made Public by the IRD - She states that she doesn't want her theology to be "monitored" by UM members  - March 3, 2003
  • Just as Jack the Ripper Must be Brought to Justice, so Must Bishop Sprague Stand Trial for Heresy - February 28, 2003
  • Prophetic Writing from April 25, 2000 of the Encroaching Heresy from The Baxter Institute - February 28, 2003
  • Modern Heresy (Article by Bradley C. Knepp - one of the 28 who filed charges against Bishop Sprague) February 27, 2003
  • Dear Pastor, The UMC Is In Danger Of Becoming Irrelevant (Commentary) - February 26, 2003
  • Now-Exposed, In-Your-Face Heresy of Bishop Sprague Provides Hope that Decades-old Mainline Liberal Drift Will be Halted - February 26, 2003
  • A Former Methodist Pastor Speaks On Its Demise (Commentary) - February 21, 2003
  • Bishop's Heresy Charges Dismissed - Bishop Sprague Dismisses His Heresy As "honoring" Scripture and Church Tradition  - February 19, 2003
  • UM Member Responds to Call for Tolerance of Bishop Sprague's Heresy - February 8, 2003
  • UM Bishop Sprague's Henchmen Conduct Spanish Inquisition in Northern Illinois Resulting in Punitive Appointments - February 8, 2003
  • Methodists Charge Chicago Bishop with Heresy - February 2, 2003
  • UM Pastor, "Follow the Apostle Paul and Deliver Joseph Sprague 'over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme'"  - January 29, 2003
  • Methodist Pastors, Laity Seek Bishop's Removal (Agape Press)  - January 16, 2003
  • 28 UMs File "Same Old" Complaint Against Sprague.   Last time, it took the "bishops' club" over a year to dismiss the June 2000 Complaint of the Sprague Christology Heresy - January 11, 2003
  • Sprague's History of Heresy in the Northern Illinois Conference Dates Back to When He Arrived - Yet, he's still a bishop in the United Methodist Church! - January 11, 2003
  • On Metaphors, Atonement, and a Bishop (Article) - January 11, 2003
  • Sweet Nothings: Deconstructing The Amusingly Inoffensive Mr. Sprague And His Symbolic, Self-Centered Universe (Commentary) Revisited - January 11, 2003
  • On Senator Lott, Bishop Sprague, and the Virgin Birth (Article) Senator Lott Resigned for his "Blasphemous" Comments, Why Not Sprague? - December 26, 2002
  • Readers Demonstrate Utter Confusion of UM Laity Concerning Christian Beliefs and Methodist Doctrine - December 19, 2002
  • UM's Ask Bishop, "Where to Turn?" When Their Pastors Promote Contrary Doctrines In Local Church - December 17, 2002
  • Bishop Whitaker Tells Secular Newspaper that He Did Not Intend to Break the Unofficial "Code of Silence" of Criticism of Heretical Bishops - (TheLedger.com article) - December 5, 2002
  • UM Clergyman Boldly Speaks Out Against Bishop's Tacit Support Of Church Heresy - December 3, 2002
  • UM Bishop Sprague Turns Spin Up, "Biblical Christians Hijacked the Bible Are NOT Christian"  - huh? - November 26, 2002
  • New Call for "UM Bishops' Code of Silence" of Criticism—Heretic Sprague Wants Cessation of Testing for False Teachers - November 14, 2002
  • South Carolina Bishop Defends Colleague's Heresy As Faithful "theological exploration" - November 14, 2002
  • Marcus Borg, Favorite Scholar of Liberal UM Leaders (e.g. Bishop Sprague), Explains his Heresy to Reporter (link updated) - November 14, 2002

  • South Carolina UM Bishop Specifically Affirms Sprague's Heresy, and Says John Wesley's Writings Support the Same Heresy - November 9, 2002

  • "Of course, Sprague does not worship Jesus Christ..." Neither Do UM Women Nor Youth (Comments) - November 7, 2002

  • Blown Away By Lack of Response To Bishop's Heresy (Comments) - November 7, 2002

  • South Georgia Bishop Offers Insipid Response To Colleagues Heresy - November 7, 2002

  • UM Bishop Sprague—Stop Worshipping Jesus, He's No Better Than Other Historic Leaders - November 5, 2002

  • Sprague's Words Dishonest And Arrogant–Bishops' Responses Weak But Welcome (Commentary) - November 2, 2002

  • Mississippi UM Bishop Supports Heretic In Office, Says Accountability Is Secret, Alarmed Laity Should Just Study - November 2, 2002

  • Bishop's doubts split United Methodists (The Washington Times) - October 31, 2002
  • North Carolina Bishop Throws In Support For Sprague Heresy As Good For United Methodism - October 28, 2002
  • Paranoid UM Bishop Sprague Furious over Internet Criticsms, Claims that Evangelical Right-wing Conspiring to Use Him as "Poster Boy" to Extort Money from UM's - October 24, 2002
  • UM Bishop Sprague Attempts to Convince both himself and the World that he has Supporters in the UMC - October 24, 2002
  • Satan Running Scared: Liberal UM Leadership Creates Investigation Agency to Dig Up Dirt on Evangelical Renewal Group Liberals Believe Evangelicals Backed By "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy" of Clinton Spin - October 6, 2002
  • UM Bishop Sprague Denounces Evangelical Renewal IRD; Sprague Claims to be the Christian, and the Evangelicals to be Secularists - October 2, 2002
  • UMC Watchdog IRD Praises UM Bishop Whitaker for Denouncing UM Bishop Sprague, and Thus Breaking the Episcopal Silence of Self Criticism - September 28, 2002

  • UM Pastor Pleads in Liberal/Evangelical Debate:  The UMC Needs Both the Saints AND the Heretics! - September 28, 2002

  • Florida Bishop Throws In His Support For Sprague's Heretical "Theologumenon" Which Denies Christ's Virgin Birth, Resurrection, And Second Coming - September 22, 2002
  • Watchdog Group Calls For Methodist Bishop's Resignation - September 7, 2002
  • Sweet Nothings: Deconstructing The Amusingly Inoffensive Mr. Sprague And His Symbolic, Self-Centered Universe (Commentary) - August 30, 2002
  • The Institute on Religion and Democracy: United Methodist Bishop Rejects Christ's Full Deity, Virgin Birth, Physical Resurrection and Atoning Death - August 30, 2002
  • Good News Calls for Investigation of UM Bishop Sprague's "Denials of Major Doctrinal Tenets," such as Jesus’ Deity, Virgin Birth, Blood Atonement, and Resurrection - August 19, 2002
  • Allah Saves!!! UM Bishop Sprague says, "God's work of salvation will be done by God through Islamic hands." - August 5, 2002

  • Official UM Newspaper Highlights Sprague Type Denial of Christ; UMC Pluralism Expands - August 5, 2002

  • Sprague's Heresy Explained—"I used to dwell there" (Commentary) - June 26, 2002

  • UM Bishop Sprague Arrogantly Blasphemes God -- Full Transcript of Bishop's Speech at Iliff - June 26, 2002

  • Methodist Bishop Sprague Denounces Christian Beliefs - June 19, 2002

  • Bishop Sprague Spouts Nonsense And "Radical Incoherence" In UM Column - May 30, 2002

  • UM Bishop Sprague Spouts Heresy and Laments Growing Old and Feeling Out-of-Place in UMC with Too Much "Right Wing Stridency"- May 21, 2002

  • UM BishopFamous for Blessing Homosexual Marriage, Hypocritically Condemns Clergy Sexual Misconduct and Vows to Hold to Book of Discipline - April 15, 2002

  • UM Bishop Sprague Lets True Beliefs Slip Out at Panel Discussion -- "There Will be NO Second Coming" - October 30, 2001

  • UM Bishop, Reeling from Second Coming Remarks, Spins his Heresy with Double-Talk in Several Writings:
    Literal Second Coming? Forget It! Jesus Comes Again and Again in our Hearts - November 30, 2001

  •  God Never Left, so Why Must Christ Come Again? The Incarnation isn't Literal, it's just "The Jesus Story" - December 14, 2001

  • The Efforts of Mankind (like the bishop's) Will Bring God's Kingdom to Earth, Thus no Need for Second Coming - December 21, 2001

  • UM Bishop Sprague Leads Alliance Preaching Homosexual Doctrines Contrary To Church - April 3, 2001