SYRACUSE — As a journalist and author, R. Gustav Niebuhr changed the coverage of religion in the United States by reporting on stories that showed how people’s faiths contributed to shaping their ...

It may be timeless wisdom, but the prayer itself isn't ancient. Roy Morsch/The Image Bank via Getty Images I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ...

Jesus wandered in the desert for 40 days and the Israelites for 40 years! I have only made you, dear reader, wander through H. Richard Niebuhr for four days. What can we now say having made the trek?

The humanitarian plight of Syrian refugees and the terrorist threat of ISIS seem likely to dominate the cable news channels for weeks to come. But it’s unclear whether Christian preachers will ...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a number of conversations and written a few blog posts about the intersection of faith, education and culture. They are themes that are always relevant and yet ...

A book that one can barely escape reading on the way to earning a seminary degree is Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr. Published in 1951, the book quickly became a classic. Its ...

Yesterday, I began my look back at H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture, explaining why I reread the book and considering the first resolution of the problem of Christ and culture that Niebuhr puts ...

Martin Marty, one of the most prominent commentators on religion and culture in our time, will visit Elmhurst College on Tuesday, March 6, to talk about one of the 20th century’s most influential ...

It is an enduring legacy, that of Reinhold Niebuhr, America`s pragmatist theologian, liberal critic of the liberal dream. Born 100 years ago next month, he was the best-known public theologian in 20th ...

This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Find the full series here. “It may be that the greatest moral problems of the individual or of a society arise ...

Mohsen Badreh and Ruhollah Golmoradi are the translators of the book originally published in 1951. The 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who ...

H. Richard Niebuhr makes a bold but as yet little analyzed appeal to the Stoics in "The Responsible Self", the roots of which are present in earlier works. Stoicism, especially in Ciceronian dress, is ...