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January 2015

January 22, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO – Marcus J. Borg, beloved husband and...

December 2014

December 11, 2014
Like a preacher who has pastored a congregation for more than a year, I am...

October 2014

October 14, 2014
A great change has occurred in the rituals, formal and informal, surrounding dying and death...
October 03, 2014
I began keeping a journal in my early 30s, now forty years ago. I wish...

September 2014

September 22, 2014
To write about religion is to court controversy, conflict, and criticism. It confirms the counsel...
September 02, 2014
Editors' Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...

July 2014

July 30, 2014
This is my third installment about a letter about Jesus and the issue, “Was Jesus...
July 17, 2014
My previous blog – “A Letter about Jesus” – drew a much larger response than...

June 2014

June 30, 2014
A very few days ago, I received by e-mail a letter about Jesus from a...
June 18, 2014
To neglect the Bible because of the negative associations generated by the common Christianity of...

April 2014

April 17, 2014
I sympathize with clergy who preach about Easter to the same congregation for several years....
April 10, 2014
On Monday in Holy Week, Jesus performed the second of two provocative public protests in...

March 2014

March 30, 2014
I wish that all Christians knew the story of Holy Week. Indeed, I wish everybody,...
March 14, 2014
A few blogs ago, I wrote about a persistent theme of my thinking in my...
March 01, 2014
Ash Wednesday (this year, March 5th) is the first day of the season of Lent....

February 2014

February 15, 2014
This blog supplements my previous “Amos and American Christianity.” If you read that first, this...
February 10, 2014
I have been thinking a lot lately about what I wish every Christian knew. On...

January 2014

January 29, 2014
I am very much enjoying and valuing the conversation about my recent blog about the...
January 22, 2014
An alert to readers of the “Progressive Christian” Faith Stream who do not often read...
January 15, 2014
The triad named in the title of this blog has been illuminating as I have...

December 2013

December 23, 2013
I just posted a reply to some comments made in response to one of Peter...
December 18, 2013
The conflict between “Jesus and Caesar” is a major even if most often overlooked theme...
December 10, 2013
Most – perhaps all - Christmas pageants combine the stories of Jesus’s birth in the...
December 05, 2013
There is a lot of silliness in the contemporary (and now perennial) and largely conservative...

November 2013

November 28, 2013
I begin with the obvious: Advent is a season of preparing for the coming of...
November 24, 2013
Perhaps the most striking sentence I have read in the last few years is in...
November 19, 2013
In the first third of the 300s, as the Roman emperor Constantine legalized Christianity and...
November 09, 2013
For a number of years I have asked Christian groups what they think the Christian...
November 05, 2013
What does it mean to be Christian? What makes a person a Christian? An important...

October 2013

October 31, 2013
I continue the conversation about the cross with some comments about responses to my previous...
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