Author: Martin E. Marty
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In his ‘Ninety-Five Theses’ Luther called upon believers to repent. What does that mean?
Joseph Fiennes in “Luther” (RS Entertainment, 2003)
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Religion is alive and well in America. Don’t believe it? Ask a professor.
Three famed former faculty members of the University of Chicago Divinity School: Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), Jerald C. Brauer (1921-1999), Paul Tillich (1886-1965) | Credit: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, [apf1-05444], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
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Souls and the guns of America
Wind erosion carries topsoil from farmland during the Dust Bowl | Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture Wind erosion carries topsoil from farmland during the Dust Bowl | Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Freud and other ‘god-killers’ are here to stay
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychoanalyst, in his office in Vienna, ca. 1930 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychoanalyst, in his office in Vienna, ca. 1930
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Mormon whiteness, the alt-right and Charlottesville
“Mormon tabernacle camp on their arrival in Utah,” from Charles Mackay’s The Mormons, or Latter-day saints: with memoirs of the life and death of Joseph Smith, the “American Mahomet” (1851)
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The Pope, the Mafia, and the rest of us
Pope Francis elevates the host as he leads the Corpus Domini procession at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, on June 18, 2017. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Tony Gentile Tony Gentile Pope Francis elevates the host as he leads the Corpus Domini procession at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy,…
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Is America losing its religion of football?
Woodrow Wilson High’s Edwin Lopez (#1) stands while most of his teammates and coaches kneel during the national anthem before their game against Highland High School on September 10, 2016, in Camden, NJ. Photo courtesy of Yong Kim/Philly.com YONG KIM Woodrow Wilson High’s Edwin Lopez (#1) stands while most of his teammates and coaches kneel…
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Malls, small-town stores are closing all across America. And churches?
Photo Credit: Alan Levine/Flickr Photo Credit: Alan Levine/Flickr





