I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the experience of God in the various cultures in which each originated. To be… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care. — Marcus Borg Copy Share
People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time. — Marcus Borg Copy Share
'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings. — Marcus Borg Copy Share
I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the… — Marcus Borg Copy Share
