Videos

 This video is a recording of an interview of Marcus with Interfaith Voices about his book The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon which was co-authored with John Dominic Crossan.  Multiple Pauls? The interview begins with a discussion about why anyone cares how many Pauls…

  In this radio interview Marcus discusses the two gospels that report on the Birth of Jesus and his book The First Christmas. Mathew’s story is much shorter if you remover the genealogy at the beginning the story takes up only thirty one verses. Luke takes one hundred and…

 This is a radio interview with Marcus about writing The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Tell Us About Jesus’s Birth. Marcus and John Dominic Crossan had already written a book about Holy week, Jesus’s final week, together and decided to write a book about the beginning of Jesus’s…

 Marcus speaks on a panel at Harvard Divinity School answering questions from the audience. How do you approach the practice of individual worship with people who are already very involved in the church so that it seems worthwhile and not like an additional piece of work? Marcus finds it…

 This lecture is part three in a series for Harvard Divinity School. Marcus opens with a brief prayer from St. Agustin “O God from whom to be turned is to fall, to whom to be turned is to rise, and in whom to stand is to abide forever. Grant…

Marcus speaks on a panel at Harvard Divinity School with Brian Mclaren an authority on postmodern thought and evangelicalism. Mclaren is the author of “A New Kind of Christian” 2001. Also on the panel is Diana Butler Bass is an expert in American Religion who holds her PhD in religious…