Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faith is even feasible for members of some traditions for whom Harvard has provided no adequate facilities. And the risks of sincere encounter between systems of meaning and value that have so often exploded in violence can seem too high--who wants to replay the age-old patterns of sectarian discord in a Yard rooming group or a sleepy section or a new romance...
Before I came to Harvard I taught at an independent school in New York City. The parents in that school, like many in other places, included many "interfaith couples"--people who had, in effect, crossed sectarian lines (often risking the censure of their families and religious communities) to make their commitments to each other. They were highly intelligent, sensitive people, superbly capable of juggling ambitious careers and complex family lives. But, almost to a couple, they quickly found themselves managing their spiritual differences by factoring religion out of the family equation altogether...
...discussion of the year to date was the well-attended collaborative effort of Hillel and the Catholic Students Association: "GUILT: Nobody Does It Better." Best of all, the creation of the Undergraduate Interfaith Forum has promised us, at last, a meaningful arena for courageous, compassionate, civil conversation across the sectarian lines that have kept us so carefully apart from each other for so long...
...time of sectarian divisiveness, Brooks urged unity and common cause in service to humanity. He proposed that the University construct a building, which, he said, "should be generously used for all the various interests of university life, and should unite and strengthen many undertakings which now rather tend to divide the forces which make for good among the students." After Brooks' death in 1893, a group of alumni who followed and admired his teachings raised funds to build Phillips Brooks House...
...just two (quite similar, one might note) cultures, how will it work in, say, Bosnia, with three, or India or America, with dozens? One looks at Canada and wonders whether the current naive and confident American celebration of cultural diversity--with its insistence on group rights over individual rights, sectarian history over American history, ethnic culture over a common culture--is leading us down a path from which there is no escape...