In our February 8, 2025 Second Saturday Conversation we talked about the language of our faith. I suggest the language of faith is human language about human experience and possibility. The language of faith requires sympathy, empathy and imagination. Without […] The post In this Desert of Language we Find Ourselves In, a Match Struck In the Dark appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

On Second Saturday January 11, 2025 I referred to the season of the church year Epiphany.  An epiphany is a manifestation or striking appearance.  I qualify epiphanies as something from the depths coming to the surface.  Not something coming from […] The post Jesus: An Epiphany of Darkness appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

During our Second Saturday Conversation December 14, 2024 we spoke about the liturgical season of Advent, the beginning of a new  church year. In particular how Advent is a season that acknowledges our non-knowing. We don’t know what’s coming.  We […] The post The Season of Advent: A People who Walk in Darkness appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

Dear Friends Our November 9 Second Saturday Conversation was post election. With our community in mind,  I suggested we focus on two concerns that are common to Second Saturday Conversation.  One, when we speak of God what are we talking […] The post Post-Election Conversation appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

On October 12, 2024 Second Saturday Conversation hosted Brandon Scott for an in-depth understanding of Christian Nationalism. Brandon is an historian, biblical scholar, and educator.  He identified Christian nationalism’s historical context (and noted that nationalism is growing in places other than the United States). In […] The post On Christian Nationalism (Featuring Bernard Brandon Scott) appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

September 14, 2024 we began a new Second Saturday Conversation program year.  I made some brief and general comments about where our conversations over the years have brought us. And then suggested what a different kind of theological discourse — […] The post Through a Glass Darkly: More Numerous of Windows, Superior for Doors appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

The Rev. Canon Marianne W. BorgMark 6:30-34, 53-56 St. Thomas Episcopal Church Dubois, WY July 21, 2024  Jesus is a healer.  Whenever word got out that Jesus was near, people left their villages or cities or farms to come closer to him. And […] The post Jesus is a healer appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

 I offered an overview of our year. Where I started in September 2023 and where we arrived in June 2024.  A non-linear recap for a non-linear year. But thematic threads ran throughout.   Our guests were Scott Holland who introduced us […] The post 2024 Program Year In Review appeared first on The Marcus J Borg Foundation ..read more

Transfiguration, Sisters, Oregon June 16, 2024 Mark 4:26-34 Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg Today’s Gospel is the parable of the mustard seed. All too familiar perhaps. I wasn’t raised in the church but by the middle of childhood the story of the mustard seed found its way to me beyond church walls. What I remember was that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, great things can happen. With faith, even the size of a little mustard seed, great things can happen. What an idea. What a word of encouragement. And I remember necklaces with a dangling little round globe and an even littler mus ..read more

At our Second Saturday Conversation May 11, 2024 Jeff Creswell hosted and invited reflections on a William Stafford Poem, “The Way it is”.  A major image in that poem is the thread.  Jeff invited us to identify threads in our own lives that have brought us along our way.  And a different image, our North Star, that serves as a compass as we navigate the changes and chances of life.  Enjoy this thoughtful conversation and take time to  invite your own thoughts and experiences evoked by Jeff’s invitation to reflect and wonder. June 8 will be our last Second Saturday Con ..read more