Imagine that itโs not about the self and its concerns, about โwhatโs in it for me,โ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.
Marcus BorgIt is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.
Marcus BorgSome people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.
Marcus BorgI 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 experience of God in the various cultures in which each originated. To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran.
Marcus Borg