by Martin Marty | Sep 17, 2012 | Opinion
“Look! Our first football cover!” was the first word I heard on my first sighting of religion in public life for Sightings after a month of pause. “Football: The Moral Hazard,” words superimposed on a football game photo, was the first relevant...
by Martin Marty | Aug 2, 2012 | Opinion
Jews receive and merit attention, in this case 12 pages of it in a “Special Report” in the Economist. According to the report, there are 13.58 million Jews in the world, which is fewer than there are Southern Baptists (15 million to 16 million) in the...
by Martin Marty | Jul 26, 2012 | Opinion
Miracles do happen. They are happening recently in the media world on the church front. Critics are responding to recent attacks on the Episcopal Church. Inspired by reports of the obvious, that that church body has experienced very significant losses of membership...
by Martin Marty | Jul 19, 2012 | Opinion
Generalizing about American “people,” which includes ethnic, racial or class lines, is chancy when one throws in and observes the religious factor. Certain features of any ethnic group are so prominent that the generalizer usually does not have much at...
by Martin Marty | Jul 12, 2012 | Opinion
Picture an archaeologist or anthropologist centuries from now coming across a Sunday New York Times from our times. He or she might wonder what light the relic would throw on tribal customs like marrying in 2012. (We are assuming that marriage will survive long after...
