Yes and No
Yes, Jesus is the Son of God, Lord and Christ; the Light of the World and the Bread of Life; and the Way, Truth and Life. He is all of this for me, as a Christian who is also a […]
Posts/Articles Written by Marcus
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.
2010 Summer Seminar
Speaking Christian: Redeeming Christian Language Join Marcus Borg and Dom Crossan as they explore “the surplus of meaning” behind some of the most important words in the Christian language. The seminar will be held June 21-24 at Center for Spiritual Development
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Lecture, Reading, Book Signing
Putting Away Childish Things Friday, May 21st, 2010 7:00pm – 8:15pm; free admission Those of you who live near Portland, Oregon are invited to hear Dr. Borg give a free lecture on Friday, May 21 in Kempton Hall at Trinity
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My New Novel
My new novel, Putting Away Childish Things, was released April 20, 2010. Here my teachings on Christianity are present in a new form—fiction. I hope my book will be an engaging way for readers to learn about the important issues
For God So Loves the World
Of course care for creation should be a priority, but when the Bible was written, there was no “environmental issue” as we think of it. That there might someday be a human threat to the environment, to nature, did not
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Repent and Return to God
The biblical meaning of “repentance” is quite different from an apology. In the Jewish Bible, the Christian Old Testament, “repentance” means “to return” – that is, to return from exile, to return to life in the presence of God, to
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Agnostic About the Afterlife
I am a committed Christian and a complete agnostic about the afterlife. I use “agnostic” in its precise sense: one who does not know. Moreover, I know that I cannot resolve “not knowing” by “believing” – whatever we believe about
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Blind Acceptance is Idolatry
Without questioning, faith is idolatrous. Just as patriotism without questioning risks becoming idolatrous nationalism, so faith without questioning risks becoming idolatrous religion. To explain: when faith is defined as unquestioning acceptance of “tenets or traditions,” whether drawn from the Bible
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Children and Religion
Don’t Tell Them Anything They’ll Need to Unlearn Our children deserve to know the stories that matter to us. So tell them the stories of your tradition –and of other traditions, when appropriate. If and when they ask, “Is that
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Prayer Transforms Us
I pray all the time. I do not mean “every minute,” but many times a day. My understanding and practice of prayer are grounded in my understanding of God, the Sacred. I see God as a presence, as the one
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