Here you will find a repository of all blog posts and articles written by Marcus Borg. Before his death in 2015, Marcus Borg was a regular contributor to many blogs and discussions on scholarly Christian topics. Where possible, we have included many of these posts below and hope to keep adding to this section in the future.
From Dr. Borg’s blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marcusborg/ The triad named in the title of this blog has been illuminating as I have reflected about the stages of my life as a Christian. The meaning of memories is obvious, especially our […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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