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.
Here is the Second Saturday Conversation for March 14, 2026 with Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, London, UK. Mark Oakley’s title for this session was The Love of God: Unarmed and Disarming. He spoke to that in powerful ways. […]
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At our February 14 Second Saturday Conversation I attempted to reflect on “week two” the second half of Jack Caputo’s book What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology. I did not provide a concise summary. Nor was able to crystallize
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In our January 10, 2026 Second Saturday Conversation we began to explore Jack Caputo’s wonderful book What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology. From the first half of the book I identified first steps that begin a journey to radical
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At our December 13 Second Saturday Conversation we had a guest, John D. Caputo. His topic: ridding ourselves of supernatural theism or the supernatural attitude. We post all our sessions on our website and also send them to you. Jack
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Our Second Saturday Conversation in November was held on the third Saturday! November 15. A one off. I drew on a 1965 book by William Lynch, SJ., titled Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless, and focused on two
At our Second Saturday Conversation October 11 we had “A conversation on the edge of things” with Arthur Dewey. Art is a New Testament scholar, was part of the Jesus Seminar, is author and commentator, and is a poet. He
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September 13, 2025 was our first Second Saturday Conversation for our new program year. The overall title this year is: Starlight like intuition pierced the twelve: In dreams begin responsibilities. Titles from a poem and essay of American poet Delmore Schwartz. This
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Our June 14, 2025 Second Saturday Conversation was the final session of this program year. We will begin a new program year September 13, 2025. In this session I reflected on the topics we explored from September 2024-June 2025. All
In the May 10, 2025 Second Saturday Conversation I reviewed a view comments made by our guest in April, Mark Oakley, who insists that poetry is the person of faith’s native language. I reminded us of the meaning of poiesis, which
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At our April 12, 2025 Second Saturday Conversation we were privileged to have The Very Reverend Mark Oakley as our guest. Mark is Dean of Southwark Cathedral, London, public lecturer, author of numerous books. All Mark’s books are thoughtful and
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