Word: secularity
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...specifies thirteen 'joys,' which he thinks should, when all is taken into account, make the ministerial calling attractive to a young man. Here are the thirteen, numbered in the order in which the bishop gives them: 1. The ministry is mentally stimulating; the minister keeps up with secular knowledge as well as with religious events. 2. It is physically attractive; pastoral calling means much fresh air, walking and driving a car. 3. It is spiritually helpful to the minister; building up the faith of others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual worries...
...became physically a torch, burned at the stake for heresy with ecstatic words upon his lips: "In the truth of that gospel which ... I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die!" Such a spirit, rekindled in Czechoslovakia, stands to them for all that has cloven their new, secular republic away from the Holy and Apostolic and Most Catholic oppressions of the fallen House of Habsburg. No wonder then, that two years ago Pope Pius XI wrathfully recalled Papal Nuncio Mgr. Francesco Marmaggi from Prague, lest he be obliged to participate in honoring a dead man whose spirit lives...
Other speakers found other faults, suggested remedies. Said small, earnest Dr. Roy H. Akagi of Japan: "If Christianity is to become a living force to the Japanese people, it must first be Japanized." Said vigorous Dr. John R. Mott: "A synthesis of Eastern & Western relationships must claim all secular agencies as well as our Christian organizations. . . ." Other speakers pointed out that racial prejudice hampered African Missions, that the Church Charities are joined in "common law marriage" to extraneous economic agencies. Said explosive Dr. Sherwood Eddy, Y.M.C.A. Secretary at large for Asia: "The new slogan is not to evangelize...
...people consider themselves perfectly conversant. Critics have derided Mr. Barton's writings for carrying he strong odor of professional publicity and for the seeming presumptuousness of the titles: Nobody Knows." The implication is: "Nobody knows but Bruce Barton, and many people are affronted by such mixtures of religious with secular talk as "Christianity was launched as a short-time proposition." . . . "Preachers . . . believed the world would be . . . liquidated by God as a failure...
...sermons, at early and late hours so that his people may be out of doors on their holy day. He holds confessional, informally, in his study. His annual report deals not with attendances, collections or membership rolls, but with community improvements or needs which are no more churchly than secular since...