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.
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 »
Second Saturday Conversation November 11, 2023 I highlighted three topics. The first the name God. Arguably a name that has been used in more languages than any other to refer to our “ultimate concern “ or “point of ultimate reference.”
October 14, 2023 we had Scott Holland as our guest. Scott knows well what led to the emergence of Theopoetics as both a critique of theology and an invitation to imagine it differently. Scott is not only a professor of
What is Theopoetics? An Invitation (Featuring Scott Holland) Read More »
We begin our fourth year of Second Saturday Conversation. Welcome. In this session I introduce some themes we will explore this year: Theopoetics an invitation to an imaginative approach for exploring theology, “ dangerous memory” (Johann Baptist Metz) and
Skylights and Seasoned Tongue-and-Groove: Year 4 Intro Read More »
Second Saturday Conversation June 10, 2023 is the end of this programming year. We begin again after a short summer break September 9. In this session I did a brief review of some of our topics and highlights from our
We’re Beyond the Shallow Now: A Retrospective on Our Program Year Read More »
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