Images of God
If I would have to choose only one concept that describes what I think Marcus is writing about, it would be Images of God. Marcus is writing about the many different images of God that exists in Christianity and in […]
If I would have to choose only one concept that describes what I think Marcus is writing about, it would be Images of God. Marcus is writing about the many different images of God that exists in Christianity and in […]
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
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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
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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
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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
My most formative religious experiences were a series of mystical experiences. They began to occur in my early thirties. They changed my understanding of the meaning of the word “God”-of what that word points to-and gave me an unshakable conviction
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Without questioning, faith is idolatrous. Just as patriotism without questioning risks becoming idolatrous nationalism, so faith without questioning risks becoming idolatrous religion. To explain: when faith is defined as unquestioning acceptance of “tenets or traditions,” whether drawn from the Bible
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I pray all the time. I do not mean “every minute,” but many times a day. My understanding and practice of prayer are grounded in my understanding of God, the Sacred. I see God as a presence, as the one
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I believe that God is present everywhere, in everything – that the universe is shot through with the radiant presence of God. Thus we are always “in God,” even as God is more than the universe. But to say that
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