Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have never been heard in churches, sounds that range from Stryper's heavy beat to Michael Card's folk, from Undercover's punk rock to the mellow pop of Amy Grant, who last week won her third Grammy for her song Angels. Indistinguishable--except for their lyrics--from their secular counterparts, these performers represent one of the most interesting, fastest-growing trends in the music world: Christian contemporary music, or evangelical pop. Approximately 15 million contemporary Christian albums were sold last year, and sales exceeded $75 million. "Urban cowboy was the theme of the '70s, and they sang about bars...
...only Ivy League school without a Third World Center and they think that the University wants all Black students to assimilate." The cosmopolitan imperative demands only that the parochial impulses and proclivities that one brings to Harvard be tempered by the global realities that inevitably make up an elite secular college community in late 20th century America (or anywhere else for that matter...
...Vatican soon struck back. The Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes charged that the religious signers were "seriously lacking in 'religious submission' " and must publicly recant their view or be expelled from their orders.* Of the four priests and brothers among the 97 signers, three have recanted. But so far not one of the sisters has backed down. On the contrary, at a strategy meeting in arctic Chicago last week, they considered an array of countermeasures: another ad soliciting support for free speech, a series of nationwide prayer services, counterhearings to coincide with the bishops' planned hearings in Washington...
...legend, a man haunted, filled with rage and not "altogether admirable." This new More is an actor, writing his lines as he goes along. Arrogant in public, he's a victim of debilitating doubt in private. This More is a workahotled. A failed monk, he chooses marriages and a secular career in London. He is a merciless scourge of heretics and, at the same time, is preoccupied with death and tears for his own soul...
Rome clearly did not agree. Last month the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes commanded the heads of the religious orders whose members had signed the ad to get public retractions from the offenders. The superiors were told to dismiss those who refused to recant...