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...Secular Shadow. U.S. Protestantism, says Editor Morrison, may examine its yearly membership gains and complacently conclude that all is well. This would be about as intelligent as an assumption that a man is healthy merely because he is not losing weight...
...from delight to delight." The biggest and best delight in the show was also the oldest: a 14th Century illustration of the Apocalypse-measuring 35 by 250 feet-from the Angers cathedral. The newest and most surprising were from Jean Lurçat's Aubusson atelier. Despite their secular emphasis on roosters, nudes and flaming suns, they, too, looked somehow medieval (see cuts...
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...
...From the days of the French Revolution onwards a new religion has been taking possession of the souls of men-a religion of secular humanism. The main articles of this faith are that the exercise of reason and the extension of education are in themselves enough to purify and strengthen the nature of man and enable him to make the world a progressively better place; that a high standard of moral conduct can be confidently commended to the hearts of men on its own merits and by its own authority...
Luther is accused [TIME, April 1] of being the evil genius of Germany's absolutism, worse than Hitler. But in his Secular Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, he writes: "But when a prince is in the wrong, are his people bound to follow him then too? I answer, No, for it is no one's duty to do wrong." Hardly compatible with the accusation leveled...