Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winding down the four high-performing hedge funds he has guided almost flawlessly for 28 years. Wall Street struggled to imagine what his definition of retirement might be. Not one to disappoint, the financial whiz explained that although he is an atheist, he hopes to infuse American society with secular Jewish values...
Several hundred years ago this could have been mysticism or heresy. It isn't now. Outside there are sirens. Someone's been run over. The century grinds on. ("In the Secular Night...
...helps guide us, providing wisdom on matters both spiritual and secular and is always welcome on the councils of the University," Epps said. "He is contemporary in his preaching and courageous in speaking out on matters of race and tolerance...
...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
...common ground and fulfillment in the practice of their faith. Some of them advocate change; others resist it. But most have by now realized that change is inevitable in the U.S. church despite the best efforts of John Paul to hold it in check. Demographics, immigration, the allure of secular U.S. culture--all these forces and more are reshaping the church in America. And so are Catholics themselves...