by Martin Marty | Jun 19, 2013 | Opinion
“Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy” wrote philosopher George Santayana, and its power comes from the “special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.” He preferred to see religions...
by Martin Marty | Jun 5, 2013 | Opinion
The names of Catholic theologian Hans Küng and Pope Francis are both in the news because Küng was sighted saying friendly things about the pope, and the pope was apparently saying friendly things about God and atheists. Such stories demand or evoke in this...
by Martin Marty | May 27, 2013 | Opinion
Almost always, Sightings takes off from the sighting of a particular recent news event. This time, for fun and games, we’ll make an exception and address a generic theme: the Religious Left. Several weeks ago, we commented on Jim Wallis, the leader of Sojourners...
by Martin Marty | May 7, 2013 | Opinion
Fifty-two years ago – can it be? – I published “The Infidel: Freethought and American Religion,” and have been tracking “the infidel” ever since. Whether he or she was dubbed “free-thinker,” “agnostic,”...
by Martin Marty | Mar 21, 2013 | Opinion
“Selma: Sustaining the Momentum” was the title of a Dean Peerman and Martin E. Marty article in “The Christian Century” 48 years to the month after colleague Peerman and I joined several thousand protesters and prayers at the Edmund Pettis...
