We went to see the new X-Men movie this weekend.  I was a fan of the comics as a kid, and I’ve enjoyed the movies, for the most part.  I enjoyed this one—I laughed, I cried, I cheered Ian McKellen (he’s the bad guy, but the best actor).  And yet, as I watched another “evolutionarily [...]

A transcript of my recent interpretation of the Founding Address of Ethical Culture, as well as the original by Felix Adler, is now available by clicking here. The podcast will be available soon.  A shorter and also very interesting talk by Adler on the 50th anniversary of the founding address can be read by clicking [...]

“Today some aspects of Deism are continued in the United States in the Masonic order, in the Unitarian-Universalist denomination, in the Ethical Culture Movement, in the tradition of free-thought, in the historical-critical approach to the Bible that emerged in the late-nineteenth century (and that is foreshadowed on some pages of the Age of Reason), and [...]

Last week the PBS show Religion and Ethics covered competing conservative/liberal post-abortion counseling and support movements.  The show featured St. Louis’s own Rabbi Susan Talve and Rev. Rebecca Turner, executive director of the Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (of which the Ethical Society is a member). A transcript of the piece (which [...]

Whom I never had the chance to meet.  Leon was a Marine serving in Iraq and the youngest grandson of one of our feistiest members (and that’s saying something).  His grandfather’s continuing goal in life is to warn as many other youth as possible about the realities of military service–particularly the low-income and minority youth [...]

Update to my last post.  The FH school board voted 4-3 to change the name of their winter break to Christmas break.  (Article here.)
Significantly, one of the main crusaders on the school board said that should the district be sued over this change, he was confident of pro-bono help from the Alliance Defense Fund–which is [...]

. . . not to write about the “War on Christmas,” a “controversy” that tends to make everyone in the discussion sound “nuts.”  I wrote and then deleted a long blog entry in December about it.  Yet with the May flowers it has bloomed on our doorstep:   “The Francis Howell School Board is considering changing the [...]