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January 2015

January 22, 2015

HarperOne Mourns the Passing of Beloved Bestselling Author Marcus Borg

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

October 2014

October 14, 2014

Remembering Our Death: What May Be at Stake

A great change has occurred in the rituals, formal and informal, surrounding dying and death...

October 03, 2014

What Would It Have Been Like to Be A Companion of Jesus?

I began keeping a journal in my early 30s, now forty years ago. I wish...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Responding to a Critic: Misunderstanding or Misrepresentation?

To write about religion is to court controversy, conflict, and criticism. It confirms the counsel...

September 02, 2014

Top Religious Trends 2014: A Christianity Co-Opted by Individualistic, Exclusivist Faith

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Postscript to A Letter About Jesus

This is my third installment about a letter about Jesus and the issue, “Was Jesus...

July 17, 2014

Further Thoughts on a Letter about Jesus

My previous blog – “A Letter about Jesus” – drew a much larger response than...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

A Letter About Jesus

A very few days ago, I received by e-mail a letter about Jesus from a...

June 18, 2014

Does the Bible Matter? Progressive Christians and Scripture

To neglect the Bible because of the negative associations generated by the common Christianity of...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Easter Again

I sympathize with clergy who preach about Easter to the same congregation for several years....

April 10, 2014

“Holy Monday”: Public Protest in the Temple

On Monday in Holy Week, Jesus performed the second of two provocative public protests in...

March 2014

March 30, 2014

Holy Week: Palm Sunday

I wish that all Christians knew the story of Holy Week. Indeed, I wish everybody,...

March 14, 2014

Lent and the Cross

A few blogs ago, I wrote about a persistent theme of my thinking in my...

March 01, 2014

Ash Wednesday: Death and Repentance

Ash Wednesday (this year, March 5th) is the first day of the season of Lent....

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Amos Continued

This blog supplements my previous “Amos and American Christianity.” If you read that first, this...

February 10, 2014

Amos and American Christianity

I have been thinking a lot lately about what I wish every Christian knew. On...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

The Bible and Mysticism

I am very much enjoying and valuing the conversation about my recent blog about the...

January 22, 2014

What the Bible Is

An alert to readers of the “Progressive Christian” Faith Stream who do not often read...

January 15, 2014

Memories, Conversions, and Convictions

The triad named in the title of this blog has been illuminating as I have...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Postscript to “Christmas, Jesus and Caesar”

I just posted a reply to some comments made in response to one of Peter...

December 18, 2013

Christmas: Jesus, Caesar and Us

The conflict between “Jesus and Caesar” is a major even if most often overlooked theme...

December 10, 2013

Two Christmas Pageants

Most – perhaps all - Christmas pageants combine the stories of Jesus’s birth in the...

December 05, 2013

The Real War on Christmas

There is a lot of silliness in the contemporary (and now perennial) and largely conservative...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Thinking about Advent

I begin with the obvious: Advent is a season of preparing for the coming of...

November 24, 2013

Gratitude: One of the Most Important Virtues

Perhaps the most striking sentence I have read in the last few years is in...

November 19, 2013

The Cultural Captivity of Christianity: The Poisoning of the Church

In the first third of the 300s, as the Roman emperor Constantine legalized Christianity and...

November 09, 2013

What is the Gospel?

For a number of years I have asked Christian groups what they think the Christian...

November 05, 2013

What Is a Christian?

What does it mean to be Christian? What makes a person a Christian? An important...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Further Comments about the Cross: Part Three

I continue the conversation about the cross with some comments about responses to my previous...

October 28, 2013

The Real Meanings of the Cross

My previous blog highlighted and critiqued the “payment” understanding of Jesus’s death, the notion that...