Author: Martin E. Marty
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Why must ‘faith’ and ‘Enlightenment’ be seen as contradictions of each other?
Steven Pinker at the Strand Bookstore, New York City, in 2011 | Photo Credit: jmm/Flickr (cc) Steven Pinker at the Strand Bookstore, New York City, in 2011 | Photo Credit: jmm/Flickr (cc)
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N.T. Wright, David Bentley Hart and the latest tussle over biblical translation
An open Bible. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/Pixabay An open Bible. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/Pixabay
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On his visit to Chile, Pope Francis does something uncharacteristic … He shows that he is ‘fallible.’
Pope Francis talks with journalists during his flight from Lima, Peru, to Rome on Jan. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino; caption amended by RNS) Alessandra Tarantino Pope Francis talks with journalists during his flight from Lima, Peru, to Rome on Jan. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino; caption amended by RNS)
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The good, the bad and the Moody
The Moody Church in Chicago | Photo Credit: Timothy Neesam/Flickr (cc) The Moody Church in Chicago | Photo Credit: Timothy Neesam/Flickr (cc)
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Is higher education purely secular, or is there room for the religious?
Photo Credit: Fr James Bradley/Flickr (cc) Photo Credit: Fr James Bradley/Flickr (cc)
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Charities feel Christmas fear
“Charities Fear Tax Bill Will Cut Giving” is the kind of headline leaders of churches and charities hate to read about trends that they don’t like to face, as face they must. The subhead in a story reflecting on the current tax bill in The New York Times does not point to the more profound…
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What’s in the hearts of millennials? You may be surprised.
Photo Credit: Hernán Piñera/Flickr (cc)
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Why religious studies are needed
Detail from the entrance gate at the Mount Carmel Center (Branch Davidian compound), outside of Waco, Texas | Photo Credit: Lorie Shaull/Flickr (cc)
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Did the Anabaptist reformers ‘win’?
Amish Farm in Cooktown, KY | Photo Credit: Michael Vines/Flickr (cc)
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Novelist-as-theologian Marilynne Robinson is changing the way we think about Calvinism
(RNS1-oct6) Pulitzer-prize winning author Marilynne Robinson spoke at Union Seminary in March, 2014. For use with RNS-ROBINSON-QANDA, transmitted on October 6, 2014, Photo by Kristen Scharold.





