"Fighting Fair: Conflict and Conversation on Religion and Public Affairs"

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER:
Martin E. Marty
University of Chicago

DATE:
Thursday, Oct. 27

TIME:
12:00 p.m.

LOCATION:
Mark Twain Ballroom
Memorial Union North

Everyone is invited to attend this distinguished public lecture.

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Martin Marty is one of the most prominent interpreters of religion and culture today. Author of more than 50 books, he is also a speaker, columnist, pastor, and teacher, having been a professor of religious history for 35 years at the University of Chicago.

Marty is a columnist for The Christian Century, on whose staff he has served since 1956 and in which his "M.E.M.O" column appears. Since 1969 he has been editor of the semimonthly "Context," a newsletter on religion and culture. He is also a weekly contributor to "Sightings," a biweekly, electronic editorial published by The Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Among the more than 50 books Marty has written is Righteous Empire, for which he won the National Book Award. He has authored more than 5,000 articles.

Marty was ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1952 and served parishes in the west and northwest suburbs of Chicago for a decade before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1963.

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