Marcus Borg

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ I just posted a reply to some comments made in response to one of Peter Enns’ recent blogs on Patheos’s evangelical faith channel ( I believe it was called “Forgotten Jesus” – but […]

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ The conflict between “Jesus and Caesar” is a major even if most often overlooked theme of the Christmas stories in the Bible. In Matthew, King Herod the Rome-appointed ruler of the Jewish homeland

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ Most – perhaps all – Christmas pageants combine the stories of Jesus’s birth in the first two chapters of Matthew and Luke. From Luke: the announcement to Mary that she will conceive a

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ There is a lot of silliness in the contemporary (and now perennial) and largely conservative complaint that there is a “war on Christmas.” Often cited as evidence is the common replacement of “Merry

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ I begin with the obvious: Advent is a season of preparing for the coming of Jesus. For many centuries in Western liturgical churches, it has (like Lent) been a penitential season. Though it

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ Perhaps the most striking sentence I have read in the last few years is in Huston Smith’s most recent book, And Live Rejoicing. Published in 2012 when he was 93, I call it

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ In the first third of the 300s, as the Roman emperor Constantine legalized Christianity and then became its patron, Pope Sylvester, the bishop of Rome from 314-335, had a dream. He understood it

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ For a number of years I have asked Christian groups what they think the Christian gospel – the “good news” – is. I ask them to begin with memory – to think back

From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ What does it mean to be Christian? What makes a person a Christian? An important prologue: my purpose in this blog is not to provide criteria for deciding who is and who is

Today I read a poll of American Christians about the resurrection of Jesus. It reported that more than 90% of American Christians say that the resurrection of Jesus matters greatly to them. I agree – without the affirmation of Jesus’