by Martin Marty | Nov 14, 2012 | Opinion
Through the years this Sightings column has never commented on presidential campaigns, and the contest held this year is no exception. Today, self-liberated from the practice of opting-out, we can survey the comments on “public religion” in the campaign...
by Martin Marty | Nov 7, 2012 | Opinion
Suddenly it has dawned on pundits and publics that decline in religious affiliation and participation demands notice. Editorials on the subject abound. Some of these celebrated the liberation of society from religion, though descriptions of what is replacing it are...
by Martin Marty | Oct 16, 2012 | Opinion
Resolve, writers on Unitarian Universalist church members, to say: “I will not begin or end my story with Unitarian Universalist jokes.” Search engines will respond with numbers of such jokes; one of mine turned up 1,625,535 online, for starters. Compare...
by Martin Marty | Oct 4, 2012 | Opinion
The column series Sightings lives week by week. In my other life as a historian for 60 years, I have lived by 250- and 500-year chunks of American life. My colleagues and I know that you cannot write religious history, the history of religions and of religious people...
by Martin Marty | Sep 26, 2012 | Opinion
Vying for space and time on the religion-and-media front this week — in competition with presidential campaigns, Muslim extremist riots and almost numberless other stirs – has been the attention given to a tiny piece of papyrus which includes the teeny words...
