Videos

In this interview Marcus and Dom Crossan talk about their book The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach Us About Jesus’s Birth. Parables and Peace All of the Gospels begin with an overture. Mathew and Luke’s overtures are very different because they are mini versions of the gospels to…

 Part 1-The Fact of Religious Pluralism Awareness of other religions and cultural traditions is one of the central features of our time. Marcus references Diana Eck’s book “A New Religious America.” The central argument of the book is that religious pluralism is a fact of contemporary American life. The…

  Marcus begins by commenting on his surprise at finding a multitude of students interested in studying Christianity and religions at public universities when he first began his tenure at Oregon State University, especially in Oregon which is one of the least religious states. As the world becomes more and…

  This is an excerpt from “Speaking Christian: Redeeming Christian Language” The bible contains language about impurities you could acquire that needed to be removed through sacrifice. Impurity is not the same as sin, sometimes there is an overlap, for an example when a woman gave birth to a child…

This audio recording begins in the middle of a  question and answer section of a lecture. Marcus is speaking about the language of sacrifice. We find the language of sacrifice in both the old and new testament. It is important to realize that the language of sacrifice by itself does…

 This is a clipped version of a longer lecture given for Fora TV, in it Marcus discusses the path of Christianity and how it compares to the path’s of other religions such as Buddhism. For Christians, Christianity is the path. Marcus illustrates this point with a story. He explains…