Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year's promotion budget still to spend, 150,000 copies had been sent out and requests for more were pouring in. Far from looking askance at such salesmanship, ministers and chaplains were generally enthusiastic, felt that God's call usually needed some such secular amplifiers...
...than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College when he was hired for Exeter; but at Exeter he teaches no classes. He is casual, pleasant, hearty, but no backslapper. Summers at Martha's Vineyard he conducts secular Sunday services, reading favorite passages from Tom Sawyer...
Died. Archbishop Joseph Schrembs, 79, Bavarian-born, tireless preacher (some Sundays, five sermons totaling as much as eight hours), hymn-writing head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland, outspoken participant in secular affairs (he opposed Prohibition as "fanaticism ); after three years illness in Cleveland...
...third floor of an old limestone house at 3323 North Kenmore Avenue on Chicago's North Side is the headquarters of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church's small (nine members) Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, founded in 1931. It is also the rectory of St. Thomas Eastern Orthodox Church and the home of a Stewart-Warner production control clerk. The clerk's name, as written on his doorbell card: "The Very Reverend Cyprian Matthiesen, Society of St. Basil...
...Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, Father Matthiesen believes that he has found a nonnational, nonracial avenue for carrying the message of Orthodox Catholicism to Western people in their own terms. So far he has made some 30 converts among the Danes, Swedes, Poles and Germans in the neighborhood of his church at 3716 West Belmont Avenue...