Eulogy for Robert Funk

In a world in which people's fears are increasingly expressed through fundamentalist religion, and in which killing hostility in the name of God is regularly hurled at one's enemies, Bob Funk called Christians to a new vision of what this faith can mean in the twenty-first century.

Few people have had both the ability and the energy to push the boundaries of traditional religious understanding the way Bob Funk did. With the Religious Right now dictating the policy of the White House and an inquisitional mentality firmly established in the Vatican, the work of Robert Funk and the Jesus Seminar has been a light in this new religious Dark Age.

~from Bishop J. S. Spong's eulogy, 9/14/05