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.

Hillary Clinton of echoing the "bluster" of President Bush when she said the U.S. would be able to "obliterate" Iran if it used nuclear weapons against Israel. "It's not the language we need right now ...

More recently, Marty helped listeners understand the fiery tone of Barack Obama's pastor during the 2008 presidential campaign. "A lot of Jeremiah Wright's rhetoric matches that of Martin Luther ...

the political influence of evangelicals or the fiery rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s former pastor in Chicago. His influence was so great that when the Christian Century, a leading ...