Word: nonsectarianism
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Aware that 65 million Americans had no professed church affiliation, Dr. Gockel aimed his nonsectarian show at "the great unchurched-they are our potential customers." The first shows were a serialized morality play about Druggist Carl Fisher of Middleburg, U.S.A., a sort of male Ma Perkins whose soda-fountain stools spun with ordinary people with ordinary problems. After 3½ years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern...
Your June 24 story on the growing number of retreats in the U.S. is most informative and timely. At the Center of Creative Living, 5,000 ft. high in the San Jacinto Mountains, a nonsectarian sanctuary is maintained all year round for men and women of any religious belief-Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, etc. We believe in the need for the self-disciplines of the spiritual life. Apparent miracles have happened in just a weekend, when some man or woman resolves a problem through "listening" to inner divine direction. Some arrive confused and often in real trouble-but leave...
Scrupulously nonsectarian, it has never tried to indoctrinate. In the 90 years from its founding, it has provided the Arab world with such leaders as Charles Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon; Ismail el-Azhari, first Premier of the independent Sudan; and Premiers for Iraq, Syria and Jordan-thus acting as a major catalyst in the rise of Arab nationalism. But last week, as it inaugurated its fifth president-John Paul Leonard, former president of San Francisco State College-it confronted in that very nationalism the greatest challenge of its history...
...further said that the religious renaissance was by no means peculiar to Harvard, but a general reassertion of the premise with which the American university began, "that because a univer- sity is nonsectarian, it need not--indeed some of us believe it cannot to its peril--go further and eschew religion altogether...
...reality. The seven were all immigrants or the sons of immigrants. All had been successful, and all wanted to find a way to show their gratitude to the nation in which they had prospered. In 1946 they launched their campaign to establish Brandeis University -the first Jewish-founded nonsectarian university...