Does the Bible Matter? Progressive Christians and Scripture
To neglect the Bible because of the negative associations generated by the common Christianity of the recent past and present would be to abandon our heritage and to deprive ourselves of its riches and...
View ArticleA Letter About Jesus
A very few days ago, I received by e-mail a letter about Jesus from a person who is reading one of my books. His thoughts and questions struck me as being of interest to many people. I quote the letter...
View ArticleFurther Thoughts on a Letter about Jesus
My previous blog – “A Letter about Jesus” – drew a much larger response than I expected. In this blog, I continue that conversation with a clarification and some additional comments. Clarification –...
View ArticlePostscript to A Letter About Jesus
This is my third installment about a letter about Jesus and the issue, “Was Jesus God?” If you have not read the first two installments, this may not make much sense to you. To emphasize: as a...
View ArticleTop Religious Trends 2014: A Christianity Co-Opted by Individualistic,...
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read other perspectives from the Patheos community here. Patheos has invited a number of...
View ArticleResponding to a Critic: Misunderstanding or Misrepresentation?
To write about religion is to court controversy, conflict, and criticism. It confirms the counsel of conventional etiquette that it is best in polite conversation to avoid two subjects: religion and...
View ArticleWhat 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 I had begun earlier. I would value having a written record of thoughts and experiences from my 20s and even earlier. I mention my...
View ArticleRemembering Our Death: What May Be at Stake
A great change has occurred in the rituals, formal and informal, surrounding dying and death in North America. Here and in other contemporary western cultures, our customary practices around dying and...
View ArticleHas Christmas Been Swallowed by the Miraculous?
Like a preacher who has pastored a congregation for more than a year, I am faced with the task of saying something about Advent again without simply saying what I said last year in my Advent blogs. And...
View ArticleHarperOne Mourns the Passing of Beloved Bestselling Author Marcus Borg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO – Marcus J. Borg, beloved husband and father, renowned teacher, author and leading scholar of the historical Jesus, New Testament and contemporary...
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