Christ the King
Last Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 25:31-46 The Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg Today is Christ the King Sunday. It is a feast day. A celebratory day. And it is practiced in churches all over the world. The Roman Church calls […]
Last Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 25:31-46 The Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg Today is Christ the King Sunday. It is a feast day. A celebratory day. And it is practiced in churches all over the world. The Roman Church calls […]
March 12, 2017 Trinity Episcopal Cathedral John 3: 1-17 The Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg When Nathan invited me to preach this morning he told me that he once played in an awful children’s musical at his dad’s church called
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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?”
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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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Marcus opens with an early Celtic Christian prayer, “Christ as a light ilumen 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
Marcus opens with a comic piece on “9 reasons why beer is better than religion”. Then Marcus explains his vocational passion to be adult theological reeducation at the congregational or parish level. He explains that is why he travels
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Marcus begins by explaining that he is annually invited to preach at Calvary Episcopal Church during lent but would like to talk this year about Easter which happens after Lent. His Easter speech will continue a previous theme of
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Was Jesus a social revolutionary? In the ordinary sense in which we use the phrase “social revolutionary,” yes. Like the Jewish prophets before him, he was passionate about economic justice and peace, and advocated active non-violent resistance to the domination
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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
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My new novel, Putting Away Childish Things, was released April 20, 2010. Here my teachings on Christianity are present in a new form—fiction. I hope my book will be an engaging way for readers to learn about the important issues