I am bewildered by Harvard's inviting John Shelby Spong to speak in the Noble Lecture series. After watching Spong's antics for many years, I have come to suspect that his real reason in speaking in the Noble series next week or in publishing "A Call for a New Reformation" is a narcissistic desire to call attention to himself and for self aggrandizement by being outrageous.
It is difficult for me to understand how Harvard can support such shallow purposes, or how it can knowingly and unethically violate the conditions and purpose of an endowment with which it is entrusted.
J. M. Kilpatrick, MBA '60
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Wilmington, Del.
March 13, 2000