F&R Courses: A New Way to Guide Independent and Shared Learning

Engage with theology in new ways with our new courses on lectures from today’s top progressive scholars.

Drawing from our library, we’ve paired popular lectures with other learning materials to illustrate key points and create space for deeper contemplation and scholarship. We include updated reflection questions and membership to an online forum where you can share your personal reflections with learners from across the world.

Read on to learn more!

The Cross & Christian Future, featuring Marcus Borg

Marcus Borg invites us to re-examine the meaning of the cross.

In these lessons by the late Marcus Borg, he examines—and challenges—the prevailing understanding of what the cross means to Christianity and to believers.

Borg seeks to “recover” an original understanding of the cross, taking into account the political climate in which Jesus found himself in the days leading up to the Crucifixion. Learn about our call.

The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Just Society, featuring Joan Chittister

Sr. Joan Chittister issues a call to all of us to become public intellectuals.

Sr. Joan’s lessons on The Public Intellectual open up a new awareness that illuminates a blind spot that can develop for progressive thinkers. Traditional liberals have typically focused on critical thinking about biblical exploration and constructive theology. The unintended consequence of such an academic focus has been to overlook the reformative power of what can happen when this debate is held not behind closed doors, but in the public square.

Joan tells us that the role of the “public intellectual” is to publicly and relentlessly challenge systemic injustices that infect and contaminate the political, civic and religious institutions across our society.