Ishaan Khatter

I believe that the environment at home has been fairly secular and liberal. And most times, it comes from my mother. Our culture is very strong, but at the same time, she's a very free-spirited person. She's an artiste, and that's the environment I grew up in, where films and music were respected and meditated upon.

Indian Actor

Joel C. Rosenberg

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

American Novelist

Lobsang Tenzin

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Tibetan Leader

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.

American Architect

Hannah Arendt

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

German Historian

Richard Coles

I spend much of my time in a broadly liberal secular world but I don't belong to it, I belong somewhere else.

English Musician

Nancy Pearcey

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

American Author

Randy Alcorn

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

American Clergyman

Kathryn Bigelow

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

American Director

Safak Pavey

Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

Turkish Diplomat

Used to describe institutions or activities that have no religious influence or basis.

Public Life

Implies neutrality and no preference towards any specific religion or belief system.

Neutral Term

In some societies, being 'secular' carries a cultural significance of modernity and progress.

Cultural Implications

Refers to phenomena that happen or persist over very long periods, often unnoticed.

Time Span

The change is often gradual and requires long-term observation to be understood.

Gradual Change

Used in sciences to talk about impersonal forces or processes not controlled by humans.

Impersonal Forces

Differentiates religious roles, particularly between monks and active community priests.

Clergy Distinction

Points to active participation in societal functions, as opposed to monastic seclusion.

Community Engagement

 They even invited some of the radicals into their governing coalition. Now, that horrified a lot of secular Indonesians. But by forcing the radicals to actually help govern, it quickly exposed the fact that they weren't any good at the job, and it got them mixed up in all of the grubby compromises

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 She's one of the innovators of rock 'n' roll guitar, and one of the first crossover artists from gospel to secular. She's an incredibly important figure, and I'm going to talk about her whenever I can. So these are a couple of her tunes. And don't worry -- you're going to get your chance to sing.

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 society that encourages individualistic thinking it encourages us to find our own voice and to follow our passion yet there's pervasive pressures all around us encouraging us to conform to follow the same secular idols to care about the same celebrities to watch the same

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 The way that we've been able to do that is to get past those defensive shells and really see the soft inside of unbelief and belief and try to respect each other while still holding boundaries clear. The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox

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 but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves. It's really comfortable down here on the lower level. Come, have a seat in my home entertainment center. One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter

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 that is to be a center for the advancement of public action. The center will embody and sustain this new educational commitment. Think of it as a kind of secular church. The words on the card describe what will happen inside. We intend to turn the intellectual

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 the elderly, the poor, or social outcasts, but any member of the community could be targeted, even occasionally children. While religious authorities encouraged witch hunts, local secular governments usually carried out the detainment

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 hope I spent two years photographing the youth in my home country of Iran at the end of those two years realizing the value of my photographs showcasing the secular youth culture of Iran for the world to see I packed my bags and moved

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 And I'd like to run through a few of these today. I'd like to kick off by looking at education. Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place,

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 So we live in a secular world. How do you design sacred space today? And how do you even define what's sacred today?

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