It was ever thus, with people subordinating their enterprise - a business, a university, a cultural institution, or in my case a hospital - to outside interests: a religion, some patriotism, an ethnicity, a gender, various New Thoughts and Old Thoughts. That doesn't make it acceptable, of course, and those who served their calling often provided better service to their church, country, or sex than those who were blown about by the winds. For Christians, the Spirit of the Age is always the primary temptation.
It was ever thus, with people subordinating their enterprise - a business, a university, a cultural institution, or in my case a hospital - to outside interests: a religion, some patriotism, an ethnicity, a gender, various New Thoughts and Old Thoughts. That doesn't make it acceptable, of course, and those who served their calling often provided better service to their church, country, or sex than those who were blown about by the winds. For Christians, the Spirit of the Age is always the primary temptation.