Sentences with phrase «secular program»

I volunteer with secular programs that allow me to serve people of different backgrounds.

A local church is in competition with these national programs and the whole panoply of secular programming when it attempts to «broadcast» to a «mass» audience.

Given the dominant functions of television in status conferral and image creation, religious uses of television may more effectively be achieved through secular programming than through religious programming.

My own conclusion... is that the Free Exercise Clause does not require a State to conform a neutral secular program to the dictates of religious conscience of any group... [A] state could constitutionally create exceptions to its program to accommodate religious scruples.

The Supreme Court recognized this in stipulating that the teaching of religion should be «part of a secular program of education.»

They believe that pure proceduralism — stripped of liberal moral content — will actually protect the rights of religious conservatives to lead people to Jesus, so long as their programs are shown to have objective outcomes as good as or better than secular programs.

Some of the applicants were informally encouraged to consider programs wherein the government funding paid for the secular program from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M., while their own funds paid for a separate program that ran from 3 P.M. to 5 P.M. and might include religious content.

Those earlier rulings also recognized that a measure extending governmental assistance to sectarian schools in the performance of secular functions does not constitute a «law respecting an establishment of religion» merely because the secular program may incidentally benefit a church in fulfilling its religious mission.

(«Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistent with the First Amendment.»)

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

Similarly, a secular program may not provide much insight into the history of religion and faith.

Written by mindfulness expert and licensed clinical psychologist Patricia C. Broderick, Learning to Breathe is a secular program that tailors the teaching of mindfulness to the developmental needs of adolescents to help them understand their thoughts and feelings and manage distressing emotions.