On Faith

Martin Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he taught for 35 years and where the Martin Marty Center has since been founded to promote ‘public religion’ endeavors. He writes the “M.E.M.O” column for the biweekly Christian Century, on whose staff he has served since 1956.

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In an effort to understand the values of the 21st century, Martin Marty has studied religious fundamentalism in 23 different languages. He began his section of the On Faith session at Pop!Tech by stating the commonly held tenet that we are not going to ever get rid of religion, nor will we ever get rid of technology. But what can we do with religion if it won't go away?