"As rates of irreligion continue to rise, not only here in the U.S.A. but all over the world, we need to understand secular people, secular culture, and secularism as a political and ideological force".
So the promotion of the Gesar as China's "national cultural treasure" was probably intended not only to strengthen secular culture in Tibet but perhaps even contribute to a cultural bonding between Chinese and Tibetans.
In sum, seeker churches, in their attempt to be "relevant" and "culturally sensitive," are giving in to the secular culture.
In a secular culture, clutter may be the closest thing we have to original sin.
The cardinal mocked a secular culture that "seems to discover new rights every day".
Instead, they refer to declines as demographic "blips," waning evangelism, or the impact of secular culture.
Concerning the secular culture of the court and counting house, the situation was radically different.
This same conviction informs some of the loudest laments about modern secular culture.
Working at that place where literary culture, secular culture and Jewish culture and tradition all meet.
Whatever its form, a secular state is no guarantee of a secular culture.
