by Martin Marty | Jan 25, 2013 | Opinion
The Chicago Tribune recently alerted readers to the release that day of an ambitious set of findings about the effects of divorce on children. Reporter Manya A. Brachear called the project “unprecedented.” I crossed the street to the site of the release,...
by Martin Marty | Jan 16, 2013 | Opinion
Sightings is supposed to be about “public religion.” So what are pastors, ministers, priests and rabbis doing here this week? David Brooks mentioned them Friday in his New York Times column; that is a pretty public reference to a religious theme....
by Martin Marty | Dec 20, 2012 | Opinion
Four daily newspapers greet the Martys at breakfast. The morning after the school killings at Newtown, Conn., 24 pages of these informed us, while zillions of twitters and tweets and TV and radio programs also addressed the tragedy. Readers don’t need Sightings...
by Martin Marty | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinion
Sciences live by measurement, be it of size, temperature, numbers or pace. So do social scientists in the world of religion. David Gibson in Religion News Service and the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog featured the concept of...
by Martin Marty | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
The public media evidently cannot get enough of “The Hell-Raiser,” as Rob Bell is called in the current New Yorker, or the harbinger of “A New American Christianity,” as announced in the subtitle of James K. Wellman Jr.’s...
