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

- Marcus Borg

One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesti…

- Marcus Borg

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God.

- Marcus Borg

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings …

- Marcus Borg

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

- Marcus Borg

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 exp…

- Marcus Borg

I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I d…

- Marcus Borg

God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can…

- Marcus Borg

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.

- Marcus Borg