Martin Marty
Fifty years later, Catholic Church reckons again with unbelief
By Rosie Dawson — February 18, 2019
LONDON (RNS) — This spring, a half-century after the Vatican's first conference on unbelief, scholars will again gather in Rome to discuss research on the nature of non-religion.
Whither Wheaton? An evangelical college ponders its future
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 12, 2016
(RNS) The conflict between the school and a professor who tried to show solidarity with Muslims is itself emblematic of where American evangelicalism is today.
Obama’s God talk ‘doesn’t stand a chance’ in a polarized America
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 16, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) No president can make religious rhetoric work without getting buffeted by critics from all directions, experts say.
The troubling trends in America’s ‘Calvinist revival’
By Jonathan Merritt — May 20, 2014
A certain sect of Calvinist Christians are growing in prominence and influence, but certain trends are holding this faithful faction back from becoming a sustainable, mainstream movement.
Christian ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain dies at 72
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 13, 2013
(RNS) Widely admired ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain regularly wrote and lectured on ethics, politics and religion but was routinely criticized by other theologians for her position on Iraq.
ELCA Lutherans elect first openly gay bishop
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 3, 2013
(RNS) Observers say the election of the first openly gay Lutheran bishop in the United States is as significant as the decision to ordain women clergy, but they don't expect the decision to split the 4 million-member ELCA.
Martin Marty: Measuring religious intensity
By Martin E. Marty — December 10, 2012
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 easy today. “Decline,” it turns out, is contagious.
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