| • In February, 2003, Presbyterian Women launched the Visiting Scholar Program with a weekend event featuring noted biblical scholar and theologian Marcus Borg. |
| • Over 700 people from the community and Village church filled the sanctuary as Dr. Borg explored new and challenging ways to view the Bible, God, Jesus and the Christian life. |
| • "I was very interested in Dr. Borg's image of a God who is actively involved in the world and was impressed by Dr. Borg's emphasis on justice"...comment from weekend participant. |
| • Dr. Borg also presented a relational and transformational vision of the Christian life. |
| • "the Christian life is about 'the hatching of the heart,' opening of the self to the Spirit of God by spending time in 'thin places'. -Marcus Borg |
