Word: secularization
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...hard to imagine a secular group like the College Democrats facing similar attacks for rejecting a leadership candidate who is also an executive of the Harvard Republican Club. HRCF is merely forthright about the ideological lines it considers necessary both to protect the goals of its organization and to challenge a campus that would rather see religious doctrine whispered behind closed doors...
...Much of the (real or potential) tension facing missionaries, he says, arises out secular thinkers' and Christians' opposing views on religious conversion. "The secular world tends to look at Islam as a function of ethnicity," says Mohler, "which means seeking to convert these people to Christianity is an insult to them. But Christianity is a trans-ethnic faith, which understands that Christianity is not particular to or captured by any ethnicity, but seeks to reach all persons...
...secular world tends to look at Iraq and say, well, it's Muslim, and that's just a fact, and any Christian influence would just be a form of Western imperialism. The Christian has to look at Iraq and see persons desperately in need of the gospel. Compelled by the love and command of Christ, the Christian will seek to take that gospel in loving and sensitive, but very direct, ways to the people of Iraq...
HARVARD-RADCLIFFE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM. The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard’s premiere co-ed choir, under conductor Jameson Marvin, will be performing “Gems of American Choral Literature,” a series of secular masterworks of contemporary British and American composers. The evening will also feature guest choir the Columbia Collegium Musicum. Friday, April 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18/$14 general; $9/$7 for students (two per ID) and senior citizens. Available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
Human history shows that insular priesthoods, religious, secular and scientific form again and again to keep outsiders out and keep insiders privileged. This may or may not be the case with Stephen Jay Gould and company. The only way to tell is to honestly and fairly look at the evidence. Science prospers in political systems where the free flow of information and ideas is allowed. Don’t let The Crimson become part of the problem due to a naive view of human history and human nature...