Inspire and motivate young people. The Ethical Society has an opening for a part-time Sunday School Director to serve grades pre-K through high school. Continue reading
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This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
This is the sort of book that makes you go looking for the rest of the author’s works. She’s intelligent, amusing, insightful, and thinks a good bit like me politically and socially. These are apparently magazine and newspaper articles, probably from the OpEd pages, from basically the second term of the Bush administration. The section titles make the point rather well: Continue reading
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Exploring Ethical Humanism: Liberal Religion
Greetings. Yesterday I continued my series “Exploring Ethical Humanism” in our 9:45 Forum with a discussion on liberal religious attitudes toward authority, “salvation,” and human nature. Preparing for the forum I was reminded of the work of George Lakoff, who wrote Moral Politics and several other books in which he describes two competing frames in American politics: the Nurturing Parent frame and the Strict Father frame. In a nutshell, the Strict Continue reading
Sun., Jan. 29 Events & Platform: Growing Together by Kate Lovelady, Leader
Platform: Growing Together by Kate Lovelady, Leader
The theme of this year’s pledge campaign is Growing Together. Before attending our second annual pledge luncheon of fun and fellowship, come hear Kate’s thoughts on giving and growing, both personally and as a community. At this platform Kate will also be introducing a couple exciting new ethical action projects, both short and long term, underlining the great things we can accomplish together
11 a.m. Auditorium. Continue reading
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DVD: The Devil’s Disciple
George Bernard Shaw wrote it, and some very brilliant BBC actors performed it. One such is my beloved Patrick Stewart, who plays Anthony Anderson, the Presbyterian minister in a small town during the American revolution. The self-proclaimed Devil’s Disciple is young Dick Dudgeon (Mike Gwilym), who returned home for the reading of his father’s will and faced the scorn of his ostentatiously pious mother. Continue reading
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Humanist Memorial Quotes
This past weekend I did not give a platform address, but I was privileged to preside at the memorial of a gentle, intelligent man who had been a member for over a decade. At this memorial I shared one of my favorite memorial readings, which I adapted from Algernon Black’s wonderful book Without Burnt Offerings: Ceremonies of Humanism. (Black was a Leader at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.) I share it again here for the comfort and use of others. Despite the dated language I find it very moving, and I hope that I’m considered worthy of it at my memorial: Continue reading
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Sun., Jan. 22 Events & Platform: German Freethought Communities in Missouri by Dorris Keeven-Franke
Platform: German Freethought Communities in Missouri by Dorris Keeven-Franke
With the age of Enlightenment, came reason, spreading across Europe, reaching Germany. With the Napoleonic wars had come oppression, famine, chaos; and when the military campaigns ended, Germans were faced with an even more horrific struggle – for freedom. Continue reading
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The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (2009)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, a recent book by Richard Dawkins, is a readable review of the scientific evidence for Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection. Apparently, Dawkins realized that his previous several books about biology and religion assumed that the reader understood and accepted the evidence for evolution, so he decided that he needed a book to lay out the evidence. Dawkins covers a lot of ground in his discussion, weaving discoveries in paleontology, embryology, anatomy, Continue reading
Sat., Feb. 11: Ethical Society’s 10th Annual Trivia Night
Join the fun at our “Once Upon A Time” 10th Annual Trivia Night this February 11, 2012.
Bring in your best noggins! Newcomers, members, friends, friends of friends, & all trivia buffs welcome. If you haven’t been to the Ethical Society before, this is a great event to come check out.
$20.00 per person, 8-person tables. $1.00 Mulligans (up to 8.) Proceeds to benefit the Ethical Society. Continue reading
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“Spiritual Democracy” notes
Greetings and Happy (Belated) New Year!
Here are some excerpts from last Sunday’s platform. As always the whole talk will be posted to our podcast page in the near future, with notice on the blog when it’s ready. Continue reading
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