Second Saturday Conversation explores Christianity in and for the 21st century. We gather the second Saturday of every month from September to June. We meet from 9:30-11:00 am pacific time. To receive invitations to live sessions of Second Saturday Conversation sign up for our mailing list. All our sessions are free and are also made available here on the Marcus J. Borg website.
We use listening guidelines provided by Listening Hearts Ministries. By request we post those here.
Second Saturday Conversation is made possible by contributions to the Marcus J. Borg Foundation.
Our November 9 Second Saturday Conversation was post election. With our community in mind, I suggested we focus on two concerns that are common to Second Saturday Conversation. One, when we speak of God what are we talking about? What do we […]
Post-Election Conversation Read More »
On October 12, 2024 Second Saturday Conversation hosted Brandon Scott for an in-depth understanding of Christian Nationalism. Brandon is an historian, biblical scholar, and educator. He identified Christian nationalism’s historical context (and noted that nationalism is growing in places other than the United States). In
On Christian Nationalism (Featuring Bernard Brandon Scott) Read More »
September 14, 2024 we began a new Second Saturday Conversation program year. I made some brief and general comments about where our conversations over the years have brought us. And then suggested what a different kind of theological discourse —
Through a Glass Darkly: More Numerous of Windows, Superior for Doors Read More »
I offered an overview of our year. Where I started in September 2023 and where we arrived in June 2024. A non-linear recap for a non-linear year. But thematic threads ran throughout. Our guests were Scott Holland who introduced us
2024 Program Year In Review Read More »
At our Second Saturday Conversation May 11, 2024 Jeff Creswell hosted and invited reflections on a William Stafford Poem, “The Way it is”. A major image in that poem is the thread. Jeff invited us to identify threads in our
Don’t Let Go of the Thread – Hosted by Jeff Creswell Read More »
For our April 13, 2024 Second Saturday Conversation I continued exploring dogmatics and poetics. In this session I contrasted theology and Theopoetics. To suggest one contrast: Theology declares. Theopoetics invites. Both theology and Theopoetics are responses to the mystery of
Poetics, not Dogmatics (Part 2) Read More »
I began a conversation titled Poetics not Dogmatics. (Poetics is a broader category than poetry.) Poetics invites, provokes, engages imagination. Dogmatics are definitive and determinative. Poetics is open. Dogmatics seeks closure. The language of poetics (and it is not always
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February 10 we had the pleasure of having Belden Lane as our guest for Second Saturday Conversation: “Standing Together in Awe: Four Stages in our Learning to Love the Natural World.” Belden led us through our “using” the natural world
January 13, 2024 Second Saturday Conversation continued our discussion about Jesus. Does he continue to be an important figure for us today? He affirms our human possibility. And describes a very different God than was presumed in his day.
Conversation about Jesus Read More »
In the December Second Saturday Conversation we had John D. Caputo and Bernard Brandon Scott as guests. They provide a rich, in-depth, challenging view to our understanding of Jesus in our post-modern time under the light and examination of philosophical,
Jesus: King of Kings or Poet and Poem (Featuring Brandon Scott and Jack Caputo) Read More »
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