Martin E. Marty teaches on three faculties at the University of Chicago, where he serves as the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor. An ordained Lutheran pastor who served congregations for a decade before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1963, he directs The Public Religion Project (funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts), which promotes efforts to introduce and interpret the forces of faith within a pluralistic society. The senior editor of both The Christian Century and the newsletter Context, he has written forty-five books ranging from the five volumes produced by The Fundamentalism Project to a photo-text series with photographer Micah Marty.(Bio dated 1998)