The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

"In the case of Martin Luther King, if change is going to occur ... These multiple ways of thinking about religion's role in personal and public life were lessons Marty taught time and again ...

“Religion makes good people good and bad people ... baptism and the Christian reformer Martin Luther, whom he described in a short 2004 biography as “a God-obsessed seeker of certainty and ...