Word: secularation
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...atheist and future medical professional, I plan to dutifully care for all my patients equally, the religious and the secular. I will be a present and fervent listener at the time of a grim diagnosis, attempting to understand my patient’s fears/desires and offering guidance for the future. And, yes, I will even pray with a patient should...
...that person for my patients. Does this make my contribution to patient care less meaningful or in any way less effective? Maybe for some patients; though most will find spiritual comfort in others. And perhaps still other patients will value the advice and life perspective of their secular physician. Even though he never took a course on religion at the medical school...
...tale's main protagonist. "Of course, we have a separation of State and Church," Putin said during a visit to a Russian Orthodox monastery in January 2004. "But in the people's soul they're together." The resurgence of a Church in open disdain of the secular Constitution is only likely to exacerbate divisions in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Russia...
...Secular Americans found Falwell to be horrifying, a dangerous mix of sacred and conservative. But so, at least at first, did many fundamentalists, who believed that politics had no place in houses of prayer. "What you have to remember is that American fundamentalists were separate from the rest of country politically and theologically," said Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Falwell came along and said, 'Politics is important now. You can't stay apart.' That was no small thing. Whether one agrees with Falwell or not, to mobilize millions of people who had heretofore been apolitical...
Many of us are absolutely committed both to our faith and to our work and education at secular institutions. And our patients, in huge numbers, turn to their God in moments of crisis. The medical school needs to acknowledge all this more openly and more consistently...