In the public school I went to in the 1970s, "secular" was A neutral, descriptive word. Our social-studies teacher taught us that ours was a "secular" government, by which she meant that we lived free ...
During an address at his alma mater last week, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth discussed the rise of secularism in Britain and how Christianity in contrast enables ...
The 67 million Catholics in the United States represent just six percent of the global Catholic population of 1.2 billion, but we sometimes have a hard time understanding how the other 94 percent ...
The rise of a secular culture, combined with an increasing number of self-identified atheists and agnostics in western societies, has led to a certain amount of handwringing among religious believers.
IT SEEMS FITTING that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ attempted deletion of God from the Pledge of Allegiance was eclipsed the next day by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding ...
Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...
Some years ago, Holy Cross Father James Burtchaell published a seminal book entitled The Dying of the Light. The central thesis of this study was that hundreds of universities that began under ...
Quebec’s enhanced secularism law would ban daycare staff from wearing religious symbols. Groups representing daycares and ...
Tolerance, openness and secularism are the first steps towards economic prosperity, according to new research. Since the Enlightenment began in the eighteenth century, many societies around the world ...
Editor’s note: On Sunday’s Op-Ed page, sociologist Phil Zuckerman took aim at those who blame increasing secularism in this country for a host of societal ills, including recent mass shootings. He ...
In “Christians Err if They Give Up on America” (Houses of Worship, June 30), D.G. Hart writes, “On the Protestant side, self-described Christian nationalists such as Stephen Wolfe and Doug Wilson are ...
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