Quotes by : Marcus J. Borg

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our....

This book might also be seen as “a Christian primer.” A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is....

But Christian illiteracy is only the first part of the crisis. Even more seriously, even for those who....

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now....

Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the....

Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model,....

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and....

The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus’s....

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though....

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness,....