Marcus Borg on the miracles of Jesus walking on water and stilling the storm in the Gospel of Mark (February 9, 2019)

In Jesus: A New Vision (Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship), Dr. Marcus Borg (1942–2015) provides a briefly and helpful commentary on the stories of Jesus walking on water and stilling the storm in the Gospel of Mark 4:35-41 and 6:45-52. (Variations of these two miracles appear in Mt 8:23–27; Lk 8:22–25 […]

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Karl Barth on Jesus Calming the Storm (November 11, 2016)

The Miracle of Jesus Calming the Storm is my favorite passage from the life of Jesus, so I was delighted to find Karl Barth's eye-popping exposition of it in a small print section at the end of the Church Dogmatics IV/3.2.  Barth believes this miracle is not isolated to novice Galilean […]

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