When I was attending St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, prior to becoming Catholic, I’ll never forgot Rev. Andrews, the vicar (now retired), saying from the pulpit during one of his sermons: “Spong is wrong.”
“Spong is wrong” - churches in the South and flyover country, and people in the pews elsewhere, believed “Spong is wrong.” But most seminaries and urban churches went along with his thesis. And it took hold.