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...results are already easy to detect even from the loudspeaker end. The old sing-preach-and-pray formula that made radio religion a drug on the market is giving way more & more to the kind of religious programming that competes with secular shows: religious newscasts, interviews, round tables, special events and dramatic shows...
...rejuvenated bureau, explained Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, Ind., head of the reorganization committee, will "send out publicity releases [and] answer questions by secular papers regarding Catholics...
...portraits of well-fed merchant princes and other secular heroes, like the shrewd-eyed, poker-straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...
...Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed a hazy resolution citing the "fundamental incompatibility" between Christianity and "certain forms of communism...
Potent Unitarian Bradford, however, was in no mood for such tiptoe tactics. "We must have a central Christian pur pose,", he warned. ";A faith which believes in everything believes in nothing. If Unitarianism is.to be merely a secular debating society, let's take the word 'faith' out of it. I cannot worship the mind...