Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only is it impossible to separate the secular from the nonsecular in such church activities, said Oppenheimer, but tax exemption is well established for other charitable organizations performing the same kind of services. If religious groups were forced to give up exemptions, he concluded, "serious questions of unconstitutional discrimination might arise." In short, despite logic, Maryland believes that the Constitution can and does permit this particular reality of U.S. life. Whether Maryland is right must still be decided by the Supreme Court-if, and when, it considers Mrs. O'Hair's appeal...
...interCommunion argue that since the "church" embraces all those who follow Christ, the sacrament is not the property of a single tradition, and is thus appropriate for Christians working or praying together. Van den Heuvel points out that most cases of interCommunion have taken place in situations of "secular ecumenicity," where Christians are working together to relate the church to social problems, and "there is nothing more normal than to express that unity in liturgical form...
...rooted in his dissenting German-American ancestors, who were Utopian colonists, freethinkers, socialist craftsmen and abolitionists. The rest of it came from an indestructible innocence that helped him to survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...
...voice. Because of his high range and clarity of tone, his voice alone sets him apart from the plotting counselors and sacreligious king. The contract is especially effective in the scene where Daniel is called to the palace by the prince and courtiers. Their voices are heavy, earthbound and secular, and Daniel's divinely sweet and pure. As Belshazzar John Howell's voice is rough and dull, as it should be; and when Daniel reads him the prophecy of doom his voice quavers and almost cracks with fear. The one female in the production, Sandra Robbins, plays both Belshazzar...
...wives at will: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Still, it is hardly a surprise. The bonds of Christian matrimony have been slowly loosening ever since the 12th century church began granting annulments and separations. At Luther's urging, the Protestant Reformation approved secular divorce for grounds of adultery or desertion. Such Catholic countries as Italy and Argentina still ban divorce, but many others, from Japan to Sweden, have reached the point of permitting divorce by mutual consent...