jesus

As we head into the Christmas weekend, Religion For Breakfast has a nice seasonal episode up this week, looking at the whole question of whether Jesus really was born in Bethlehem. Short answer is, most likely not. While some scholars argue it is possible, most find it more likely that the...

Here is the premise I have been meditating on: Absent the ideas of salvation and overcoming death as presented in the Resurrection, Jesus has nothing to offer over any other moral/spiritual teacher. IOW, Christianity needs those ideas to set it apart from other religious and philosophical...

Not really interested in the topic myself but I want to get it out of @paradox3's thread on Matthew.

Saw this on the Borg Foundation's FB. It's a short passage from Jesus : A New Vision (a book I have been meaning to read) and I thought it kind of interesting. It essentially saying that a problem with modern theology is that it ignores Jesus connection to The Spirit. The Marcus J. Borg...