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.
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Second Saturday Conversation is made possible by contributions to the Marcus J. Borg Foundation.
Our April Second Saturday Conversation took place on the death date of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, and pacifist who was against Nazism. He hung on April 9, 1945 following a bogus tribunal for his opposition. We […]
Our guest for this session, Jack Caputo, discusses the future of religion, is it the “end of religion?” Please read the introduction below for a primer on our conversation. Excerpt from an Essay by Jack Caputo Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was
Does Religion Have a Future? Read More »
The March 12, 2022 Second Saturday Conversation explores the cross and glory. We are in the season of Lent in the church year, the time when the Christian narrative takes us on the final journey with Jesus from Galilee to
The Difficult Cross and Wounded Glory Read More »
The February 12, 2022 Second Saturday conversation deals with the unconditional. But first, Marianne highlights a few insights from Jack Caputo on prayer from our January session. Notably, Jack touched on prayer and the unconditional. Then February’s session begins a
What story do we tell? What story do we live? Read More »
Watch our January 8, 2022 Second Saturday Conversation. Within radical theology, what is it to pray? Prayer belongs to our restless hearts. It is a response before it is an address. Moreover, it belongs to a prior and deeper structure
Prayer, Spirituality, and Weak Theology Read More »
Watch the recording of the Marcus J Borg Foundation’s December 10, 2021 Second Saturday Conversation. The season of Advent is upon us. This is a subject we touched on last December as well. Learning from past hymns and understandings of
Advent Themes: Hopes and Fears Read More »
Modern and Post Modern Thinking On October 9, in our Second Saturday Conversation, we had a discussion with Jack Caputo who discussed Jacques Derrida and the birth of Deconstruction. Deconstruction is a “style of thinking” that examines and challenges presuppositions
Telling the Story Again Anew – November 13, 2021 Read More »
Christianity for the 21st Century In last month’s Second Saturday, I introduced the notion of deconstruction, an approach to textual criticism in our discussion of Christianity for the 21st century. And I suggest it is an approach to life as
Telling the Story Again Anew – October 9, 2021 Read More »
In this first session I introduce the notion of deconstruction, an approach to textual criticism. (And I suggest it is an approach to life as well.) Deconstruction is not demolition. It is a breaking open. Of story or text. It
Radical Theology and Deconstruction Read More »
A Recap of the Session: In our end of year session we did a broad review of some of the topics we covered this year. I began claiming a positive understanding of Religion. A deeply human impulse in response to awe
Going Home to Another Way – June 12, 2021 Read More »
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