Martin E. Marty
Fortnightly
The new year brings a change to this magazine. This sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly herewith firmly becomes a biweekly. It’s a good move....
Who do you want to be? Ready for new adventures: Ready for new adventures
Here is some Christmas– New Year nostalgia with, I hope, a point. Scene One: A Christmas Eve in 1934 or 1935, a drought, dust-bowl, Depression year in Nebraska....
Translating the faith: Translators and garblers
Chinese translators and Smithsonian Institution label-writers can be garblers....
Homo ludens: "Poised between gaiety and gravity"
Prufrockian is a term that entered the vocabulary after the 1917 publication of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J....
Getting religion: New connotations
As the Associated Press story had it, a Greyhound passenger lost it when the bus driver and several others on the bus asked him to douse his cigarette....
Times of trial: We must suffer to understand hope
Viking Penguin Lives, a series of biographies, lists Martin Marty on Martin Luther among its forthcoming titles (2003)....
Where geese corrupt: Foraging for illustrations
We occasional preachers forage for illustrative material just as desperately as do those who produce weekly sermons....
Seismic changes
Those who occupy pulpits, be they the bully pulpits of the president or other nationally prominent people or the local yet influential pulpits of pastors, have special responsibilities for discerni...
America at prayer: The church's prosaic heroism
Campus chaplains are reporting that special worship services have been filling their sanctuaries these days....
Newsworthy
Readers have sent me some items with which I cannot part and that I would like to share with you. To wit:
...Rehova Arthur
Four powerful women have been on my mind lately, and I’ll drop three of their names here: the late writer Eudora Welty, into whose cart mine once bumped in a Mississippi supermarket; the late...
Spirituality at the crossroads: Schooling in a global setting
In this new millennium, globalization and pluralism are preoccupying themes....
Scripture-esque: Wedding texts
Michael Lerich ought to be a hero to church musicians and pastors, most of whom abhor the music chosen by bridal couples for church weddings. “Trust us,” says Lerich....
A little bit awed
Frank Slaughter, M.D., was a pretty good, which means not really bad, novelist who often dealt with biblical themes....
Counting stars
Lacking a good filing system, I sometimes put things I want to remember into books, articles or columns, where I can retrieve them by using an index....
Surrounded by life
Heiko Augustinus Oberman, born 15 October 1930 in Utrecht, died in Tucson on 22 April 2001....
None of the above
When pollsters ask people what their religious identity is, they usually answer with a phrase like “I am of the Catholic tradition,” or “I am a mainline Protestant” or &ldqu...