Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emerges from Ackroyd's book, which was a No. 1 London Times best seller earlier this year and has been climbing several U.S. lists since being published here last month. Thomas More is not hagiography. Yet here is the paradox: it has the power of a second, secular canonization, establishing More, sans halo, as a martyr for a lost cosmic connectedness, the exemplar of a once commonplace mysticism that Ackroyd has evoked and mourned in recent work...
...combined similar themes of youthful rebellion and family relationship with a more contemporary edge. Ido's title character is the singer of a rock band in Israel who undergoes a religious conversion which motivates him to orthodoxy, marriage and abandonment of the band, much to the bewilderment of his "secular" parents and friends...
...value for someone else's sake?), the environment in which the universalisms were set clued me into previously unknown aspects of Jewish culture. Before the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was all bombs and faceless terrorists, and who knew of the rift between so-called secular and observant Jews...
...Secularists Rail Against Superstition" (News, November 13): Harvard Secular Society public relations director Christopher M. Kirchhoff states that "the Bible says that Jesus was crucified on the 13th, the temple of Solomon was destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam the apple on the 13th." But the Bible says nothing of the sort. The text of Genesis is conspicuously silent on the date of this transaction with respect to Creation or any other benchmark--though one suspects that such reticence should not be a matter of great concern in light of the moral significance of this episode...
Derek C. Araujo '99 is a physics concentrator in Winthrop House. He is the president and founder of the Harvard Secular Society...