Martin E. Marty

Back in the Middle Ages, which means somewhere in the 1990s, the acronym WWJD was a widely publicized guide to Christian ethics....

A friend stopped by the other day having just come back from Iran. She brought with her a gift of sweets from the Iranian city of Qom....

In 2008, we have the opportunity to celebrate the centennial of MSG!...

In 1965, I reported in these pages on the New York World’s Fair....

Durandus? Who’s that? I had never heard of him until someone lowered The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum onto my lap during a recent trip to Louisville....

For a while it was expensive watches that most tempted the very rich....

"My allegiance is to ‘Jesus Christ, who stood up and died for our sins.’” That was the keynote comment of a victorious Randy Couture, third-time winner of last spring’s heavyweight belt in the Ulti...

Each time “someone clicks on a Web page, makes a phone call, uses a credit card, or checks in with a microchipped pass at work, that person leaves a data trail that can later be tracked....

In my mind, reductionism translates as “nothing buttery.” Belief in God, for example, is seen as “nothing but” the result of certain neuron firings in the brain....

"The economy of salvation” is an ancient phrase used by everyone from the Eastern Orthodox theologians of old to pioneer Pentecostal preacher Phoebe Palmer to thinkers across the Christian spectrum...

In 1958, during a trifaith “Religious Emphasis Week” at the University of Arkansas, I hung out at the Sigma Nu house....

Readers often ask, “Whence issue these columns?” Here’s the current answer. Last winter we traded our suburban home of 43 years for high-rise housing in downtown Chicago....

The press has been making much of 29 binders and 2,400 pages of jottings found among the relics of baseball great Joe DiMaggio....

"Great Awakening 2007” is the headline of Cathleen Falsani’s two-page column in the July 6 Chicago Sun-Times. Falsani asks readers, “Have you ever had a spiritual experience?...

As family names and old religious stand-bys continue to lose favor, parents are spending more time and money on the issue [of names for their children] and are increasingly turning to strangers for...

Having written “The Uses of Infidelity” (1956), >The Infidel: Freethought and American Religion (1961) and Varieties of Unbelief (1964) back when I was on the trail of atheists and th...

When asked, “Whatever happened to the mainline Protestant churches?" as I often am, I respond: Mainline decline is an old, tired story, but mainliners’ mission is urgent....

Robert Solow on his friend Milton Friedman: “One difference between Milton and myself is that everything reminds Milton of the money supply....

"Life dies” will be the label for this column in my computer files. Life dies? Because of global warming?...

Herewith,¹ an² essay³ on⁴ footnotes.⁵ Quote⁶: “Lomborg’s⁷ book,⁸ The Skeptical Environmentalist...