Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gospel singers have a tradition that reaches back some 200 years to frontier days when countryfolk made up their own words to familiar secular tunes. Eventually, new tunes were written for community sings, camp meetings and revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply...
...invitation from Hastie, a second year divinity student, marks the first major step in 50 years to include religion as part of the House's traditionally secular program. Among Hastie's plans is the formation of a Protestant ecumenical society within the PBH superstructure. Such a group would include representatives of all Protestant sects...
Some Protestants have long envied Roman Catholics their papal encyclicals, which guide the faithful in applying Christian teaching to the problems of secular life. The growing unity of Protestantism is producing its own Protestant version of encyclicals-reports and messages from ecumenical bodies that represent an interdenominational meeting of minds. Last week, following the message on "The Responsible Society" issued by the World Council of Churches at Evanston. Ill. (TIME, Sept. 6), came a 4,000-word declaration from the National Council of Churches on the application of Christian principles to economic life. Highlights...
...meeting, in fact, marks the first major attempt of organized religion and the secular press to get together on a working basis. Treatment of religion as regular news is not new to TIME - but it was new to have so much company at Evanston...
...most important Evanston discussions was devoted to the problem of how the churches in the 20th century should go about spreading the Word. The resulting message might have been more shoptalk for clergymen. Actually, it is addressed also to laymen-"missionaries of Christ in every secular sphere"-and forcefully defines the job of being a Christian. Excerpts...