Sentence examples for secular alternatives from inspiring English sources

It provides weddings and funerals - although even those functions are being gradually usurped by secular alternatives.

"There's no secular alternatives," said Joost R. Hiltermann, an expert on Iraq at the International Crisis Group, a conflict prevention organization.

Now widely praised across the political spectrum, this law specifically provides for "charitable choice", permitting faith-based groups to receive federal cash for job-training programmes and other welfare-linked services so long as there are secular alternatives.

It has left a void in public space that has not been completely filled in by reason, recreation, art, nature or the other secular alternatives placed there over the last few centuries.

The majority addresses the issue of choice the same way it addresses neutrality, by asking whether recipients or potential recipients of voucher aid have a choice of public schools among secular alternatives to religious schools.

Supporters, however, believe that can be avoided by not limiting participation in programs to certain religions, while assuring people they can attend secular alternatives if they object to attending a program run by a religious group.

For example, for many couples, civil unions provide a secular alternative to marriage that aligns with their values.

Football Manager Live also provides a refreshingly secular alternative to the quasi-religious pomposity of the big fantasy MMOGs such as World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online.

In addition the center sponsors a student organization, the Campus Freethought Alliance, and S.O.S. (for Save Ourselves), a secular alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous.

Just when there was a bloody collision between the Reformation and Counter-Reformation comes a pagan challenge and a secular alternative to the Christian narrative.

Then six city teams became four and Thistle was left as the only secular alternative to the big two, at least in terms of the professional sides (Queen's Park has always been amateur).