nonsectarian

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What about universities that are nonsectarian but have values deeply connected to a particular religious community?

From Slate • May 22, 2025

Attorneys for the California Department of Education wrote in court papers that the nonsectarian requirement was necessary because without it, local district officials would wield significant power to direct students to their favored religious institutions.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

Initially women-driven, the nonsectarian center took root in Catholicism long before 1924.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

“It’s not an easy needle to thread, to be a nonsectarian institution, clearly founded by people with evangelical principles and worldviews.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2023

It should welcome to its pulpit all ministers of whatsoever denomination who desire to treat the worship of God from a nonsectarian standpoint or read a homily calculated to strengthen the morals of mankind.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper