He would seem out of place in the often secular world of academic science.
No church can expect to be judged merely against the most depraved parts of the secular world.
Ms. CLARK-SHEARD: I'm excited, for one, is that gospel music is being accepted in the secular world.
But in the secular world in which Chen is now ensconced, this part of his struggle now draws little conversation.
Even in the Mideast a handful of smaller Persian Gulf states are reminders that openness to the secular world can be a ticket to postpetroleum prosperity.
Yet ever since the triumph of democracy in eastern Europe, the church has often appeared to the secular world to be slipping behind the train of history.
It called on the churches to support the broadcasters in exploring faith "not as an additional element to an otherwise secular world, but as an integral part of it".
During his papacy, Benedict in many ways defined the church in opposition to the secular world, seeking to strengthen its identity by focusing inward on its fundamental teachings and rituals.
He again broke ground with a namesake prize (and other awards) for work that promotes understanding of religious thought in the secular world (hardly a more important topic today, eh?).
He is on sabbatical now and spends most of his time writing and occasionally lecturing on a vexing subject: How should people who call themselves Christians conduct their lives in the secular world?
However, I do applaud Pope John-Paul in his continuing to represent the ideals which he believes in so strongly, because religion can only survive in an increasingly secular world if it continues to promote debate on social and moral issues.
Internet postings for Farouk1986 -- apparently a combination of his name and birth year -- reveal a young man who fought feelings of loneliness and struggled with balancing his life as a Muslim with the temptations of the secular world around him.
In many other parts of the world, secular greens and religious people find themselves on the same side of public debates: sometimes hesitantly, sometimes tactically, and sometimes fired by a sense that they have deep things in common.
In an increasingly secular and "unreligious" world, the Archbishop of Westminster told Christians that they should not be afraid.
Iraq was once one of the Arab world's more secular countries.
Like Mr Grasso, he believes that the secular forces driving America's (and the world's) conversion to an equity culture will outlive a bear market: indeed a correction has its uses, because it reminds investors of the link between risk and return.
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Beyond these ideological perplexities the Islamists are hampered because, for all their popularity compared with both the regimes and the secular opposition parties, their popular support in the Arab world has a ceiling.
Christianity influenced and shaped the moral foundation of the modern world even as it retrenched and conceded space to secular thought in the realm of politics.
Democratic, secular Turkey would become an even more potent model for the Arab world.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation but it is also secular.
To be clean shaven has for decades been a political statement of solidarity with the secular, Westernizing elites who were pre-eminent across much of the Arab world until the series of uprisings that came to be known as the Arab Spring.
This is a familiar complaint of secular Western elites who think that religions need to be less religious to survive in the modern world.
Even Western Europe, which contains some of the most secular societies on earth, will be affected by a growing tide of religiosity due to immigration from the Muslim world, predicts Kaufman.
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