Marcus Borg spoke in Omaha this past spring. A friend loaned me a CD she purchased at the Christ Community Church where he conducted a workshop. Of course I know he is controversial. His sermon was "Being Christian in a Time of Christian Change." The following is a story he tells:
"One of my favorite stories concerns a young married couple who had a three year old daughter and the mom was about to give birth to the second child. The little three year old girl was really excited about having a new baby brother or sister, and when the new baby got home, the three-year old girl was absolutely insistent that she be permitted to be in the baby's room with the baby alone with the door shut. The parents were a little bit nervous about this, and then they remembered that they had an intercom system. So they let the little girl go into the room; the door was shut; they ran to the intercom, and then they heard the little girl say to the baby, "Tell me about God. I've almost forgotten." I think it's a haunting story because it suggests not only that we come from God, but that we have a memory of that. And that the process of growing up, being socialized, learning language, all of that, is to a large extent, a process of forgetting."
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