by Martin Marty | Nov 17, 2011 | Opinion
While polarization marks and blights politics in America today, and while popular culture, commerce and religion are afflicted with the all-or-nothing ideologies and practices that prevent the citizenry from meeting the challenges which only intensify as seasons pass,...
by Martin Marty | Nov 14, 2011 | Opinion
Writers who deal with current topics are expected to “declare an interest,” which on occasion – today is an occasion – I do. For many of the 16 years since the FestivalofFaiths has been celebrated in Louisville, Ky., I’ve been on the scene, and was...
by Martin Marty | Oct 31, 2011 | Opinion
Baptists and Mormons are running ahead of Catholics in media coverage on the current “public religion” front. Many of the members of all three faith groups chafe when they hear their movements denominated “denominations.” Catholics chide...
by Martin Marty | Oct 5, 2011 | Opinion
Preachers, pastors, priests, rabbis and imams number in the hundreds of thousands in the United States. They minister at the borders between what gets tabbed “sacred” and “secular” realms, and as such cannot go unnoticed in public media. Some...
by Martin Marty | Sep 28, 2011 | Opinion
Random headlines from daily newspapers which reached our door recently: “Pope Ventures Into Land of Luther, and Criticism,” “A Papal Homecoming to a Combative Germany: Benedict Faces Calls for Change,” “Pope to Visit Germany Amid...
