by Martin Marty | Feb 23, 2012 | Opinion
Notice: This is an alert, not a review. Repeat: This is an alert, not a review. In our sights this week – they would be hard to miss – are notices of Alain de Botton’s “Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion.” The...
by Martin Marty | Feb 16, 2012 | Opinion
Keeping an eye and ear on hourly, daily and weekly incidents and trends in zones where “religion and public life” intersect is one thing. Taking looks at such incidents and trends in half-century cycles is another. These longer-range surveys provide...
by Martin Marty | Feb 8, 2012 | Opinion
Citing national debates over the religious and judicial implications having to do with fluoridation of water would draw little notice. Such was not always the case. At last mid-century, when the pile of letters to the editor of The Christian Century might thin out for...
by Martin Marty | Jan 25, 2012 | Opinion
Next week Crown Forum will publish “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.” The weekend Wall Street Journal gave a generous two-pagepreview. The foretaste in the Journal presented no surprises, since the author, Charles Murray, offered the...
by Martin Marty | Jan 19, 2012 | Opinion
Those who observe United States Supreme Court decisions on “church and state” are dealing with what many call the most important “religious liberty” case in decades, at least since the 1940s. Like so many cases, this one had a parochial start....
