Sentence examples for secular responsibilities from inspiring English sources

If Chief Justice Moore finds that his duties as a judge conflict with his religious beliefs, he can resolve the conflict in favor of his higher calling by resigning from his secular responsibilities.

The specific question in Perich's case is whether an exception originally focused on relations between religious organizations and their clergy and similar workers also applies to employees with major secular responsibilities.

The majority of the Court in Hobby Lobby bought this approach to religious liberty rights: when it comes to a complex social context like the workplace, where the employment relationship is mediated by a thick web of rights and responsibilities, secular laws must yield to the corporate owners' religious faith when they come into conflict.

Through his tireless work to promote social justice, universal responsibility, secular ethics, interfaith harmony, and nonviolent principles, he has made a monumental contribution to alleviating human suffering and increasing, for lack of a better word, the Gross Global Happiness.

As the recent experience of Iraq proves, elections in a country where the rights and responsibilities of secular and democratic citizenship are largely unknown do little more than crudely assert the majority's right to rule.

And he has responsibilities; a secular poet, he humanizes Islam for the Western reader, explaining the significance of Karbala while demonstrating religion's power to connect personal grief to a culture's.

As civic order was breaking down just before the Revolution, control of well and pump overseer appointments had passed from the Common Council to the city's secular, elected vestrymen, whose primary responsibility since the 1740's had been ministering to the poor, collecting and distributing the poor tax, and overseeing the almshouse.

It seems nobody in this country wants to take responsibility for the secular decline in the value of the U.S. dollar.

Why doesn't he sell a mansion and use the money to really help people in crisis?" The discussion on "Breakthrough" raises an important question: in an open, secular society, what is the responsibility of the wealthy, or anyone else, to use their personal wealth to help those in need?

The church claimed primary responsibility over moral decisions; secular authorities were attempting to carve out for themselves a sphere of competence over political matters.

After serving another five years as minister for public works, he became minister of education (1888 91) and succeeded in unifying Egypt's system of education, integrating all military, secular, and religious schools under the responsibility of the minister of education.