More about Marcus Borg

Hi Everyone!

I found a very interesting website called Spirituality and Practice. It has a webpage on Marcus Borg with links to his books, website, and interviews.

The website is has a blog on Spiritual Literacy, which looks very interesting.
The one of the authors of the site is a clergyman from the United Church of Christ.
I have emailed and asked permission to link their site to our blog for your information.

Until we hear back from them, I found the site by Googling Borg + "spiritual practice".

By the way, one of Borg's sermons is linked on the site. He mentions that being spiritual and serious about Jesus is really simple. It means centering one self in God and acting in a compassionate way with justice, as is the Way of Jesus. (This answers my question that I posed in the last blog.... and okay, now I feel a bit dense. Sometimes the obvious seems too simple.)



The latest Observer has an article about mega churches and what we can learn from them.

I just finished reading A Life With Purpose by George Mair. It's about Rev. Rick Warren who wrote the Purpose Driven Life. Warren is a minister of a mega church. It describes the key factors that Warren identified in seekers. Welcoming greeters, a positive message, non-traditional looking buildings, and a lack of denominational label in the church's name were some of the things that attracted these seekers. Interestingly, the book mentions that Warren's church will have to change to attract the next generation of young adults, who want churches with more evidence of traditional Christian symbols.

A headline in an edition of the Brandon Sun proclaimed that the traditional Churches are regaining members. Didn't read the article, but maybe the trend is reversing.

Anyway, Mair's book kind of fits into our study group as it is exploring how one person's faith and discernment made a difference in the world.

It's a quick read and very interesting. If anyone wants to borrow it, just ask.


Another interesting website to check out is Our Daily Bread. Some of our group reads it on a daily basis as part of their private devotional. It is a very thought provoking site.

Does anyone else have any websites that they would like to share with the group?