Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly-Moslem leftists again spread into the eastern suburbs and to the luxury hotel district on the Mediterranean. Not only has this war diverted the P.L.O.'s energies, but the spectacle of Christians and Moslems battling each other has also challenged the Palestinian contention that a secular, democratic and non-sectarian state can replace Israel. In such a new nation, so the argument goes, Moslems, Jews and Christians would live with each other in peace. "Lebanon symbolized that kind of coexistence," remarked a Palestinian intellectual in Beirut. "It hurts us badly to have such trouble in this society...
...statement has received a great deal of public attention because "there were a lot of people just sort of waiting" for someone to articulate a connection between religious and secular concerns, Cox said...
...part-time prison minister in Rochester; two are professors at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.; the Rev. Lee McGee is a chaplain at Washington's American University. Alison Cheek, of course, has her church work in Washington. But most of the others are working at secular jobs?because they cannot get anything else...
...question is not, as William Stringfellow is quoted as saying, whether the Church can change, but rather if it will conform to secular society. The faith and practice of the Church are radically opposed to the tenor of the world. This applies to sexuality, and while the world might change, the Church must stay faithful to its heritage. The issue is not simply the ordination of women, but the compromise of the church to the world. This is seen in the willingness of these women and their allies to take the Church into the civil courts. It is very strange...
Tucked in among the stories about the Church are several secular ones, which underline the confusion in the modern world. A three-page story that most clearly reveals Powers's disenchantment with modern society opens with a short clipping from a magazine, part of a first-person account of wifeswapping. A Christmas letter from one of the couples to the other follows, but where you expect at least some mention of the intimate experience that the four shared, you find only the details of the lawnmower they owned in common before one couple moved away (each couple owned $44 worth...