Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sing fretful-mother tunes (What Will Baby Be) or hymns religious (High and Mighty) and secular (Jackie DeShannon's Put a Little Love in Your Heart) with the same innocent intensity. In the lovely title number (written by Mac Davis), the singer watches a 15-year-old girl in love with music, in love with love, and remembers her own long-ago youth. The whole album provides Parton with a dandy career retrospective. She comes full circle to reconsider a lifetime of womanly misbehavin' in the purity of her girlish voice. We're < all grown-ups, she says, and still...
Some successful boomer churches are shrines to secular movements, particularly the 12-step programs modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. "We refer to ourselves as wounded healers," says Minister Mike Matoin of Unity in Chicago, himself a former bellhop, bouncer, cabdriver, and child of an alcoholic. "A lot of baby boomers can relate to us. We've been through our / own recovery, and we're not on a pedestal." If a spiritual search is going on, it is for an inner child. In a room remarkably empty of religious paraphernalia, on a riser, behind the pulpit, an enormous teddy bear sits...
...purpose of Westminster's original policy was to affirm and perpetuate the unity of the school's educational mission with its spiritual mission. For Westminster officials, Christianity was not, as it is at secular schools like Harvard, an extracurricular activity, a separate department, or an object of merely sociological interest...
...college administrators were really concerned about Westminster students' exposure to educational diversity, they would accept these students to college in order to broaden their perspective. Instead, admissions officials force Westminster students to choose between completely religious or completely secular intellectual worlds throughout their whole educational careers...
...Westminster School's capitulation sends a discouraging message to other religious schools. It is up to the secular intellectual community to expand its definition of "tolerance" and "inclusiveness" to include toleration for the rights and needs of those who believe, in the words of Robert Frost, that good fences make good neighbors...