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Photo by Robert Huggins, '04 |
Martin E. Marty, one of the most prominent interpreters of religion and culture in the U.S., spoke this spring to a large audience in Whitworth's Cowles Auditorium. Marty is the author of more than 50 books, including the National Book Award-winning Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America, and is also a columnist, pastor, teacher and former associate editor of The Christian Century. He has written more than 5,000 articles for a variety of magazines and journals and holds more than 75 honorary doctorates. Marty was a professor of religious history at the University of Chicago, where he now has emeritus status, for 35 years. At Whitworth, he spoke on the topic "A Global Local Faith, a Local Global Faith: Christian Possibilities Today."
To hear Marty's Whitworth lecture, go to www.whitworth.edu/podcast.
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