Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's house life is currently diverse yet secular. Students are--and should remain--free to organize religious discussion tables and meetings within the houses, and we can and do celebrate traditions and beliefs in our own rooms and suites...
...Lost Gospel is a mystical connectiveness with nature that is based on the belief that nature is indivisible and without secular attachments," Hayden said...
Bennett, though frank and provocative, has a keen sense of marketing and showmanship. While he upholds the value of religious faith, he distinguishes himself from TV evangelists and reaches a larger audience by keeping his discussion of virtues accessible even to secular readers and listeners. Reared an Irish Catholic Democrat in a broken home in Brooklyn, New York, he marries the instincts and grammar of a populist to the convictions of a social conservative. And he blends intellectual sweep with the physical presence of a prizefighter. It makes for quite a package. His speeches shift seamlessly from anecdotes told...
...leader," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "After the May election, a lot of people thought his career would be over and he would retire gracefully." Peres has stayed on, waiting for a split in a fragile Netanyahu coalition that relies on the support of both religious and secular parties. If that coalition fails, Netanyahu may be forced to turn to the Labor Party as a partner, and Peres could become an influential Foreign Minister. His party would be content to celebrate him as an elder statesman. "He's perceived to be a loser," says Beyer. "He's never...
...blamed progress itself. And so, come to think of it, did Melville's possible disciple in this line of thinking, the Unabomber, who was a moral train wreck in his own right. The complaint seems a little simple. It can appeal to a flintstone fundamentalism that argues that materialist secular humanism, with its seductive technological wealth and toys and vices, fosters a godless hubris. But no one except Melville's grandfather thinks Flight 800 fell from the sky because its passengers wanted to travel too fast...