Word: adiaphora
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Thus, like many laymen, a number of churchmen have reacted with prayer and indignation to Watergate (now an entry, along with words like Adiaphora and Suttee, in the new Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics). Yet moral outrage from the pulpit is not as widespread as it might be; Sam Ervin has quoted the Bible on the issue ("God is not mocked") more often and more effectively than many a preacher. Items...
...back to funerals in our churches, with a minimum of adiaphora and a return to the real emphases which give genuine comfort to a mourning family...
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