Word: nonsectarianism
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...constitutional separation between church and state? A group of New Hyde Park, N.Y., parents thought it did, took their complaint to court. Last week the state's highest judicial body, the Court of Appeals, rejected the parents' reasoning by a 5-2 vote. To call the nonsectarian prayer unconstitutional, said one majority opinion, would be "to stretch the so-called separation of church and state doctrine beyond reason...
...branch of journalism rarely distinguished either for professional merit or piety, Taft brings a full measure of both. Church affairs are thoroughly chronicled; the Herald has the largest religious news section of any nonsectarian newspaper in the U.S. Taft conscientiously audits as many as five sermons a week, attends all important religious conferences, reports every church mortgage-burning...
...knew his stuff was the man who could find the applicable verse in the Good Book. In this secularist midcentury, academic acceptance of the Bible college has declined toward the vanishing point. But this month marks the centennial celebration of a dramatic exception. Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., a nonsectarian Protestant Bible college, in its fashion has learned how to reconcile science and scripture...
Founded in 1892 at the height of the Wisconsin timber boom, Northland began as a flourishing Congregationalist secondary school. When pines and people dwindled, it became a fading nonsectarian college. Gus Turbeville inherited a huddle of Victorian buildings, an unaccredited school without entrance requirements, a refuge for flunkees from other colleges. More than one trustee said to him: "I'd like to resign as soon as possible...
...Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence and abandoned sex that we read of every day. I want to devote the rest of my life to this...