Sentence examples for distinctly secular from inspiring English sources
But these days, at least for those among this nation's 23 million people with radios, there is another, distinctly secular cry rising in the early morning air.
The spiritual aims of worship were paired with the distinctly secular necessity of a place in which not just common faith but common humanity could be taken for granted.
If neither approach works, remind your colleague that in our pluralistic society, invoking God for narrow self-interest in a distinctly secular setting is a practice customarily reserved for winners of a Grammy.
In his teens, he began to take engagements as a solo artist in the distinctly secular clubs clustered around Beale Street, while earning a living in a furniture factory.
They hold a mirror to the societies he visits, coaxing rare debate about spiritual matters in distinctly secular lands; they offer the body language, the tantalizing hints, the sideways glances that give tangible expression to theological nuance; they provide the scripted symbols, the ecclesiastical theater, that the Vatican presents as the choreography of faith.
Early footage shows Lenny smoking and swimming in distinctly secular fashion; Diane Keaton co-stars as a nun, James Cromwell as Lenny's mentor and Ludivine Sagnier as the wife of a Swiss guard who may or may not (but we're putting money on may) lead to a lapse in Lenny's celibacy.
"He detests the news that the public gets through NPR and believes it is slanted from a distinctly liberal and secular perspective," said Patrick Vaughn, general counsel for Mr. Wildmon's American Family Radio.
But they were also trying to create a distinctly Roman Catholic alternative to secular rationalism or liberal Protestantism.
As Reuters notes, a judge refused to block the teaching in July, ruling that "yoga at its roots is religious," but its modern practice is secular and "a distinctly American cultural phenomenon".
As a secular Syrian, Hassan wanted to maintain the distinctly Syrian character of his militia; he refused to work with foreign jihadists.
Other Tunisian Islamist groups have rejected Ennahda as being too secular, and many analysts consider the party to be distinctly moderate.
