In this radio interview Marcus discusses the two gospels that report on the Birth of Jesus and his book The First Christmas. Mathew’s story is much shorter if you remover the genealogy at the beginning the story takes […]
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This is a radio interview with Marcus about writing The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Tell Us About Jesus’s Birth. Marcus and John Dominic Crossan had already written a book about Holy week, Jesus’s final week, together and
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Marcus speaks on a panel at Harvard Divinity School answering questions from the audience. How do you approach the practice of individual worship with people who are already very involved in the church so that it seems worthwhile and
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This lecture is part three in a series for Harvard Divinity School. Marcus opens with a brief prayer from St. Agustin “O God from whom to be turned is to fall, to whom to be turned is to rise,
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Marcus speaks on a panel at Harvard Divinity School with Brian Mclaren an authority on postmodern thought and evangelicalism. Mclaren is the author of “A New Kind of Christian” 2001. Also on the panel is Diana Butler Bass is an
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In this interview Marcus and Dom Crossan talk about their book The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach Us About Jesus’s Birth. Parables and Peace All of the Gospels begin with an overture. Mathew and Luke’s overtures are very
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Part 1-The Fact of Religious Pluralism Awareness of other religions and cultural traditions is one of the central features of our time. Marcus references Diana Eck’s book “A New Religious America.” The central argument of the book is that
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Marcus begins by commenting on his surprise at finding a multitude of students interested in studying Christianity and religions at public universities when he first began his tenure at Oregon State University, especially in Oregon which is one of
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This is an excerpt from “Speaking Christian: Redeeming Christian Language” The bible contains language about impurities you could acquire that needed to be removed through sacrifice. Impurity is not the same as sin, sometimes there is an overlap, for
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This audio recording begins in the middle of a question and answer section of a lecture. Marcus is speaking about the language of sacrifice. We find the language of sacrifice in both the old and new testament. It is important
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