Among yeshivas, Ner Israel is unusual in that it has always allowed students access to secular, professional education.
An elected government with popular support would be better placed to work with the moderate, secular, professional tendency in the army to tackle extremism and bring Pakistan's poor the economic development they need.Sadly, there seems little hope that the security forces will abandon the habit of a lifetime and allow truly fair elections.
There are some secular medical professionals who think exorcisms have the potential to deliver a positive psychological effect.
Turning away from the Confucian quest for sagehood, the empirical scholars were increasingly secular and professional in their pursuit of textual studies.
Mr Allawi's pitch resonated with secular-minded professionals, military officers and others wary of clerics and nostalgic for the days of a strong state.
Their governing council is composed of secular-minded professionals — lawyers, academics, businesspeople — who talk about democracy, transparency, human rights and the rule of law.
While Deller was firmly rooted in the Anglican choral tradition, the voice and stylistic address of the Ohio-born Oberlin, who has died at the age of 88, were conspicuously more secular – early professional assignments included the advertising of a brand of toilet paper.
Williams, scholarly and ascetic, a self-confessed bearded leftie, was in need of professional secular advice and counsel.
As the birthplace of the American Revolution and Transcendentalism, an intellectual insurgency that occurred a century later, Concord is the holy land for an assortment of secular pilgrims, including professional and lay historians, philosophers and writers.
Although the proportion of our cohort engaged in GH (44%) was over two orders of magnitude higher; it is not clear whether our estimate should be considered "high" or "low", given our specific focus on physician-leaders with training in health education, research and policy, and the tectonic secular changes in professional medicine over the past thirty years.
