Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reports of ballooning bank debts due to the church's free-spending ways. Dissidents complain of the cost of maintaining church leaders in many mansions, most of them lavishly furnished. A church-related foundation has poured nearly $2 million into Quest magazine. The same foundation will launch a secular book-publishing company, Everest House, with 30 titles this fall...
...Presbyterian statement also endorses homosexual rights legislation, even while requiring discrimination within the church. Some liberals found this inconsistent, but the rationale is that secular law need not follow the dictates of religious teachings. Significantly, the document declares that all sexual relations ought to occur only within heterosexual marriage. This signals a retreat from the so-called New Morality by the denomination that published Joseph Fletcher's influential Situation Ethics in 1966 and four years later came close to embracing such theories officially...
...unifying theme of the two plays that opened Canada's annual Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, last week-but not power for its own sake. The central figures in both works, one by George Bernard Shaw and the other by Henrik Ibsen, are secular Salvationists who dream of bettering mankind's lot. One thrives; the other is doomed...
Toward 9 a.m.-still an ungodly hour for secular New Yorkers to be up and about on a Sunday-there are some 2,000 of these folks (8,000 more are still coming on the No. 10 bus and other conveyances) spreading their blankets, unpacking their Frisbees, getting one toke over the line and window-shopping the small army of pushcart food vendors already in business. There are shishkebab carts, doughnut-and-apple-juice carts, organic-bread carts and, later, one kimono-clad Occidental mixing onions, ground beef, celery and sweet peppers in a charcoal-fired wok (yummy). Suddenly, from...
...against Jews, but against Zionist ideology and institutions that have separated Palestinians from Jews and allowed the Israeli ruling elite to dominate and persecute the Palestinians. They are struggling, therefore, for the creation of a new society where Jews, Christians, and Moslems can coexist with equal rights within a secular democratic state...