Sightings Articles
Lost in Translation -- Martin E. marty
“Religion in American (etc.) Public Life” is our rubric and we sight references to it at least weekly. So what business do we have lifting up, from a single magazine, two reviews of books about ancient Hebrew prophets and New Testament parables? What...
March 9, 2015
Pope Francis
Depressed, weary, or frightened by stories of USIS and ISIS and other horrors, plus by debates over “religious extremism” and the role of Islam, we focus instead on the not-unimportant figure of Pope Francis, who makes news and inspires reflection. W...
February 23, 2015
The Silent Minority
America’s largest ethnic group has assimilated so well that people barely notice it. So ran a headline in The Economist (Feb 7)....
February 16, 2015
Theology Now -- Martin E. Marty
Baillie, Balthasar, Barth, Berdyaev, Bonhoeffer, Brunner, Bultmann—to mention only the “B-team,” were coin-of-the-realm giants in the mid-20th century theological revival. Add Niebuhr(s), Murray. Tillich and a few Liberation Theologians, and you will...
February 9, 2015
Football and Ethics -- Martin E. Marty
What’s God Got to Do with Football Devotion?...