This archive of videos includes past lectures, sermons, and speaking engagements of Marcus Borg.
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What is God?
Marcus provides a framework and ways to think and talk about what God is in a short opening for a small group of people to discuss the topic “What is God?” What does the word “God” refer to? Supernatural theism: God is a being, super being, separate and part…
Open Hearts and Thin Places
https://youtu.be/_oTvyAhyEtU This audio recording opens with a reading of a text about St. Paul in Athens where he is proclaiming the good news of god’s revelation in Jesus Christ. The market place in Athens is an important place for discussing and sharing ideas. The reading begins at verse 19. The…
Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? Marcus Borg and Rev Charles Holt
https://youtu.be/-DzBfAegnIs This discussion takes place in Rollins College, it is meant to open discussions not necessarily convince or debate. Marcus begins by answering the question ‘if one believes in the meaning of the resurrection is it necessary to believe in the physical resurrection?’ Marcus’s answer is ‘believe whatever you want…
Conversations With Scripture: The Gospel of Mark
https://youtu.be/odn05NhPhyc The first gospel of Mark is ‘Jesus Christ the Son of God’ in passages two and three Mark quotes a passage from the prophet Isaiah “I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way…
The Resurrection Debate: Crossan and Borg vs. White and Renihan
Opening Statements White speaks first. They open by referencing Paul as talking about having the story passed down to him. White says this indicates that Paul is recording a first hand witness’s event which is not clouded by time. The story speaks plainly about the death of Jesus which is…
Jesus and the Coming of the Kingdom of God
What is the Kingdom of God? Marcus references the christian scholar John Reumann, he wrote “ask any one hundred new testament scholars around the world Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or non-believer ‘what was most central to the message of Jesus?’ and all one hundred of these experts would say the…