nonsectarian

For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.

By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.

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

The Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that offers refugees resettlement assistance, employment placement and immigration legal aid, as well as referrals to housing, education and health screening resources.

“We have not financed our schools in a way to make it possible to have truly nonsectarian, religiously pluralistic moments of meditation,” he said.