Resources for Life Groups

The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem,

This book is co-authored by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan.

As The Last Week moves from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, a clear picture forms of the events leading up to the death and resurrection of Jesus. The authors illuminate not simply the unjust domination systems of imperial Rome, but the passion Jesus fought for – the justice of God's kingdom.

Embracing an adult faith

Marcus Borg with Tim Scorer

Marcus Borg on What it Means to be Christian

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

by Barbara Brown Taylor

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.

Embracing the Prophets in Contemporary Culture

Confronting Today's "Pharoahs" Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann, arguably America’s leading Old Testament scholar and theologian, takes us on a wild ride through the poetic prophecy of the Hebrew Scripture, identifying cultural contexts, putting a framework to Israel’s history, and, most significantly—and times challengingly!—drawing connections between Israel’s sociological, economic and spiritual status and that of America today.

Each of the six sessions begins with a 10-15 minute video presentation by Walter Brueggemann, followed by filmed interaction with a diverse small group.