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...argued that ultimately a liberal democratic society with no connection between state education and the church develops into a secular society...
...faculty members met in the Congregational Church last night to debate the resolution, "The Church is Necessary for the Preservation of the Democratic Ideal." But both agreed that it wasn't, and the question became instead, "Can the Church Support Democracy if Democracy is Secular...
First with the Best. It was not always so. The Jesuits had no permanent headquarters in England until the mid-19th century, when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant...
...Although I will not charge any others with actively attacking our churches. I do call to your attention the forces in our society which stand to benefit by the weakening of the Protestant free churches. First, the secular forces of totalitarianism, Communist and fascist, which hate the church which holds God, not man, is sovereign. Second, the religious forces, superfundamentalist and anti-Protestant, which believe that they alone have full truth...
...minister, applicable henceforth to all U.S. religious groups. Part-time preaching and teaching is not enough, ruled the court. "These services must be regularly performed. They must . . . comprise of registrant's 'vocation.'" but on the other hand, there is no reason why ministers should not have secular jobs on the side, since "many preachers, including those in the more traditional and orthodox sects, may not be blessed with congregations or parishes capable of giving them a living wage...