Martin Marty, an eminent church historian, prolific chronicler and interpreter of religion and its role in public life, died ...

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

A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in ...

Memories and reflections on Martin E. Marty, a scholar of remarkable influence, kindness, and wit, from a friend and ...

A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better ...

Readers react to a profile of the Christian author Aaron Renn. Also: The link between poverty and health; absent ...

A former Lutheran pastor, Martin Marty rose to become one of the country’s preeminent historians and interpreters of religion.

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

the following year with Martin Luther King Jr. In 1987 he published the first of his three-volume survey of 20th-century American religion, in which he described the impact of fundamentalism on ...

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 ...

NPR religion correspondent Jason DeRose has this ... MARTY: A lot of Jeremiah Wright's rhetoric matches that of Martin Luther King. When you hear King accusing the nation for an unjust war in ...

By retrieving Lutheran theology with exceptional care, Hughes suggests that Christian faith is a matter not of certainty but ...