Christ the King Sunday
The feast day of Christ the King is a late development. It wasn’t instituted until 1925. By Pope Pius XI. The Anglican church followed the Roman Church’s lead.
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The feast day of Christ the King is a late development. It wasn’t instituted until 1925. By Pope Pius XI. The Anglican church followed the Roman Church’s lead.
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Watch the recording of the Marcus J Borg Foundation’s December 10, 2021 Second Saturday Conversation. The season of Advent is upon us. This is a subject we touched on last December as well. Learning from past hymns and understandings of
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October 21, 2018St. Mark’s Sheffield EnglandMark 10: 35-45The Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg (Note: for those who read my November 14 sermon given in St. Louis, there is duplicate material here.) “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever
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Second Church PresbyterianSt. Louis, MissouriOctober 14, 2018Rev. Marianne Wells BorgMark 10:17-31 Thank you Travis [Winckler] and Jane Smith for the invitation to be with you this morning. It is an honor. I am glad to be here. I am an
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Marianne suggests that the seasonal liturgical landscape in some ways reflects the physical landscape and our own internal landscape. In the Christian tradition you have advent in the middle of winter which represents the beginning of a new year.
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Marianne opens the discussion referencing a recent talk that discussed that right now is an important and pivotal time for Christianity, humanity and the planet. She goes on to talk about Progressive Christianity and some of the foundational understandings
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Rev. Marianne Wells Borg August 26, 2018 Proper 16/John 6:56-69 Trinity Episcopal Church, Bend Oregon “It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless.” That’s what the author of John’s gospel has Jesus say today. Just two weeks
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August 12, 2018 The Rev. Marianne Wells Borg Trinity Episcopal Church, Bend Oregon Proper 14/ John 6:35, 41-45 This week I am going to give a nod to the Gospel of John. But first, a nod to Bill Ellis. Last
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St. Thomas Episcopal Church Dubois, Wyoming Proper 10 / Mark 6: 14-29 The Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg Jesus’ Name Was Known – Is He John the Baptist’s Spirit Come to Life? “King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name
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It sounds paradoxical. But I think that awareness of our finitude is our hope. So much of our Christian tradition has emphasized life after death and that our destiny and ultimate destination is in heaven with “God.” Somewhere, up there. And
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