by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Jul 9, 2018 | Opinion
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has verified reports and testimony by survivors – they do not call themselves “graduates” or “alumni” – of First Nations schools, whose mission had long been announced: “kill the Indian in the child.” Following...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | May 17, 2018 | Opinion
“True evangelical hope,” a headline in the current (May 23) Christian Century, drew and held my attention this week. It signaled an interview by Elizabeth Palmer with President Jimmy Carter. They got right to the point of “evangelical” issues...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Jun 1, 2016 | Opinion
“The ultimate [baby] boomer game today,” writes Timothy Egan, “is competitive longevity.” He was commenting in an op-ed on notable editor/writer Michael Kinsley’s self-documented struggle with Parkinson’s disease. A religious clue...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | May 9, 2016 | Opinion
When in the 1980s, Scott Appleby and I were first chartered to deal with one particular public expression of religion, the complex of militant fundamentalisms, we were confronted with a global scene for which we were not prepared. We soon found out also that very few...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | May 2, 2016 | Opinion
No writer about religion has reason to complain that too little has been happening in “the world of religion.” Daily as we do our “sighting,” we find scores of items in international and domestic affairs that deal explicitly with...
