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...love numbers. But there are long glances at the rear-view mirror (Yesterday; It Was a Very Good Year; Those Were the Days; Try to Remember), hymns to individuality in a societal crush (Little Boxes; We Shall Overcome; The Times They Are A-Changin'), and?most surprisingly in a secular era?a strong, if unspecific theology: Bridge Over Troubled Water; The Weight; Turn! Turn! Turn!. It continues to the present with Bob Dylan's New Morning...
Kinsolving is not the only ordained minister writing religious news for the secular press. New York Times Religion Editor Edward B. Fiske is an ordained United Presbyterian minister, although he does not advertise the fact. James Bowman of the Chicago Daily News was a Jesuit priest; Roy Larson of the Chicago Sun-Times was a Methodist minister. William Wineke of the Madison, Wis., State Journal was even specifically ordained by the United Church of Christ to the vocation of religious reporting. Many of the best laymen writing religion are personally devout. A.P.'s George Cornell and U.P.I...
...criticism came into focus last fall with the publication in Britain of a slim volume called Secular Evangelism. In a plea for soft-sell evangelism, the book argues that "by attempting to bulldoze adolescent minds into orthodoxy of belief we are . . . making it more difficult for earnest seekers after the truth to be real persons." It urges evangelists to seek "people before converts." That did not sit too well with the Salvation Army, for whom soul winning is still the basic objective. Worse yet, the author was Salvation Army Major Fred Brown of Regent Hall, one of the Army...
Many children raised in religious families learn prayers so totally by rote that sometimes, even in middle age, they find the words still crossing their minds en bloc, a memory that bypasses understanding on the way to the tongue. So it is with certain secular incantations, including the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Some of the young are beginning to examine its wording; one phrase has troubled them. Recently, the senior class president of the Eastchester, N.Y., Senior High School, along with other students and the school's principal, organized a petition campaign to have the formula changed...
Theologian, reluctant rebel, martyr of the German Confessing Church in its struggle against Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become something of a religious folk hero in recent years, credited variously with being both a religious Che Guevara and a founder of secular theology. Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's student, coconspirator, and literary executor, expands what is already known about Bonhoeffer, but also adds important new material...