by Martin Marty | Jul 6, 2012 | Opinion
“Forecaster of the Future, Is Dead at 81” headlines the obituary of Anthony J. Wiener in the New York Times. He and Herman Kahn in 1967 co-authored “The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years,” a book much favored...
by Martin Marty | Jul 3, 2012 | Opinion
The two “big kids on the block” of American denominationalism are making front-page and prime-time news this early summer in ways that crowd out other stories of events and trends in most other groups. Only the Mormons are in competition for the spotlight...
by Martin Marty | Jun 26, 2012 | Opinion
Surveys, statistics, data, graphs and trend studies have their place when we look at and analyze the “church life” (and “synagogue life,” and all the rest) that makes up a major part of “public religion,” (our weekly topic) in...
by Martin Marty | Jun 22, 2012 | Opinion
“TheBishopsandReligiousLiberty,” the cover topic in Commonweal this past week, brings together opinion by six Catholics who know their way around and through issues of “church and state.” What prompts the issue is the action by Roman Catholic...
by Martin Marty | Jun 7, 2012 | Opinion
The scopes of my column, assigned to focus on “public religion,” often deal with religion in public affairs, particularly politics, economics and the like. There, one spots most media coverage of religion, but for many believers and onlookers the focus is different....
