Pope on Unequal Wealth
Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. “Pope attacks ‘tyranny’ of markets in manifesto” (Chicago Tribune, Nov. 26), “Pope Assails ‘New...
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Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Two stories vied for top notice over the weekend. The first was the death of Nelson Mandela, the...
View ArticleLosing Faith
Guiding my own thoughts about historical changes are these lines by the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset: “Decisive historical changes do not come from great wars, terrible cataclysms, or...
View ArticleReligion in 2013
Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. With this release Monday’s Sightings says good-bye to 2013. Appropriately, I want to use this...
View ArticleReligious Architecture
Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Few expressions of religion are as public and inescapable as buildings. It is difficult to hide...
View ArticleGuns
Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Impressed and depressed by the week-long media coverage of “Bridgegate” in Governor Christie’s...
View ArticleRecalling Ian Barbour, who stood at juncture of faith and science
Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Ian Barbour, Who Found a Balance between Faith and Science, Dies at 90. So read his New York...
View ArticleCalvinism and Conflict
Originally posted on Sightings at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Last Saturday was the day set aside for the annual festival commemorating “The Conversion of St....
View ArticlePope asks for forgiveness
Holy Week in the Western Christian calendar is a time for Christians to confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, and seek to amend their lives. A billion believers will be doing all that in the five...
View ArticleSunday’s canonizations show sainthood now has few critics
St. John Paul IIPhoto Credit: Paval Hadzinski / flickr Yesterday, the Roman Catholic world and many other worlds celebrated the canonization of two new saints, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II....
View ArticleMartin Marty: Measuring religious intensity
Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism in America rise together, hold steady together, and decline together. The reasons for the decline may vary, from group to group, but few in church life have it...
View ArticleMartin Marty: Why pastors suffer fools (in response to David Brooks)
Dismiss “the institutional church” and its ministers, if you will, but, if David Brooks is right, you will not have fewer fools. You will likely find more people abandoned, often unjustly, in an...
View ArticleReligious Architecture
Few expressions of religion are as public and inescapable as buildings. It is difficult to hide temples, churches, chapels, mosques, and shrines from public view. Millions of people in all cultures...
View ArticleGuns
Fight for rational, limited gun-control if you are so moved by the Spirit or spirits, but know that in the present culture you will have stepped beyond the bounds of politics and moved to question the...
View ArticleRecalling Ian Barbour, who stood at juncture of faith and science
Scholar Ian Barbour probably did more than any other American to transcend the “extremes" in science-religion conflicts.
View ArticleCalvinism and Conflict
Last Saturday was the day set aside for the annual festival commemorating “The Conversion of St. Paul.” Did anyone notice? Still, Paul is “all over the place” in Christianity. Almost everything about...
View ArticlePope asks for forgiveness
Holy Week in the Western Christian calendar is a time for Christians to confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, and seek to amend their lives. A billion believers will be doing all that in the five...
View ArticleSunday’s canonizations show sainthood now has few critics
Historian Martin Marty recalls that, in centuries past, not everyone was a fan of the idea of saints.
View ArticleEvangelical Ministry to Gays and Lesbians Admits It Caused Harm
Since the simple declaration that homosexual activity is a sin used to be the first and last word, for Christians who made it basic to their understanding of faith, a declaration like Alan Chambers’ is...
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