I got a secular insight from Mitch Goldman, a fellow-guest and television producer who hosts alternate Mondays on the radio show "Jazz Alternatives" on WKCR.
The piece "True Love", after opening with an intimate celebration of sexuality, culminates in lines that are beautifully poised, deeply concerned with evoking what a secular notion of insight might mean.
"It is at least possible," he said, "that conservatives and traditional societies have some moral or sociological insights that secular liberals do not understand".
21 31 However, our analysis of longitudinal data demonstrates policy effects at a population level and highlights the importance of accounting for secular trends and additional insights from comparative data.
Analysis of these data will offer the maximum possible insight into secular and geographic variation in the etiology of hearing loss while also providing insight into the efficacy of early intervention in improving the communication skills acquired by hearing-impaired children.
However, as technical tools for measuring behavioral and physiological changes become more sophisticated and more sensitive, we should seize opportunities that offer the potential to increase our empirical understanding, whether it is to improve secular therapies or to offer insights into spirituality and the cognition of religion.
And the imaginative sympathy that lets a Democrat enter the mind of a Republican or grant a believer insight into the secular experience, or vice versa, is one of the essential elements of art.
Temporal changes in the geomagnetic field termed secular variation (SV) provide vital insight into the fluid dynamics and dynamo action at the top of the core.
In his On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794), Friedrich Schiller proposed that artists should present us with portraits of secular "saints," heroic figures of insight and sympathy whose example should inspire us.
Part of winning the respect of the religious majority is to show respect, an insight that more secular leaders are acting on.
The registers and language of the Bible are never far away in her work, the religious idea of insight replaced by a fiercely secular directness.
