This archive of videos includes past lectures, sermons, and speaking engagements of Marcus Borg.
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Lent: What’s the Cross About?
A Sermon in Austin, Texas In this video, Dr. Marcus Borg speaks at the University United Methodist Church in Austin, TX. This sermon took place on April 6th, 2014. The title of his sermon is “Lent: What’s the Cross About?” The text is Mark 8: 31-34; Mark 10: 32-34. Borg…
Social Justice in the Book of Amos
Marcus Borg speaks on the topic of social justice in the Bible, specifically Book of Amos, he looks at the societal context and world orders contemporary to Jesus and his disciples to help understand their views of social justice. To begin, Marcus tells a parable about cows who…
Mysticism, Empowerment, Resistance and Counter-Advocacy
Marcus opens with a series of lighthearted Church announcement bloopers. Marcus opens the main part of his talk with a prayer from the Jewish tradition. “Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. God, fill our eyes with seeing and our eyes with knowing, let…
Memories, Conversions and Convictions: Thinking about Our Journeys
Marcus speaks at All Saint’s Church of Pasadena Lent event. He opens with a Celtic Irish Christian Prayer “Christ as a light illumen and guide me, Christ as a shield overshadow me, Christ under me Christ over me, Christ beside me on my left and my right. This day be…
Our Understanding of Holy Week
Dr. Marcus Borg speaks at the Episcopal Preaching Foundation’s conference in the Diocese of Olympia on February 26, 2014. She Left Me For Jesus Marcus starts out this talk with quoting from a whimsical country song called, “She Left me for Jesus” and continues into his introduction with a brief…
What’s Christianity All About? – A Sermon On Day1.org
The Historical Complexities of Being Christian, What does it mean to be Christian? Sometimes that is very complicated, at some points it has meant believing the right thing and getting our beliefs right. For example, in 1054 we had the Great Schism that led to the Roman Catholic Church…