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I recently re-discovered a fantastic book edited by Marcus Borg entitled Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings. Borg, a prominent Jesus scholar and member of the Jesus Seminar, has written a number of books over the years that have done much to bring awareness to the ideas and methods of modern Jesus scholarship. If you read any of his works, or others of the Jesus Seminar, you will quickly discover that Jesus may not be the same guy they speak about in church each Sunday (especially here in the Bible Belt).

My intent for this article is less to do a book review and more to share some of the sayings that Marcus Borg highlights… Read the rest →

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