Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly secular world, there needs to be increasing interreligious dialogue. The numbers of people seeking alternatives to established religion continue to grow in the face of ineffectual responses from established religions...
Gomes said to the Observer that he decided to undertake writing the book because he believes the Bible has become "a lost or a closed book to the majority of secular America...
...title the notion that there's a struggle involved and that this is not a historical or pious piece of work," said Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals. "The thesis is that the Bible is increasingly a lost or a closed book to the majority of secular America. As a result, a large part of our society loses the biblical tradition and what...
...first listen, the love songs sound lighter than the rest of the album, but beneath the sunny surfaces, Sweet's view of secular relationships is equally bleak. The brokenhearted narrator of Someone to Pull the Trigger implores his lover to take him back or "shoot." And on the mid-tempo Devil with the Green Eyes, Sweet laments, "You were never meant to be mine/ 'Cause I came up from a dark world/ And every love I've ever known is dead." At such moments, backed by Quine's corrosive electric guitar, Sweet takes sentiments that could have been morbid...
...team may be twentysomething games out of first place in the National League West, but it is has won the hearts of Rocky Mountain fans. They make this secular hajj all around the region to help the club obliterate attendance records: a million fans by Mother's Day, 2 million by Father's Day, a projected precedental 4.5 million for the season...