I believe that summers should be about not having a schedule, so I can’t tell you exactly how much blogging I’ll be doing for the next couple months.  Some, but not a lot.  I will be attending the American Ethical Union’s yearly Assembly in Chicago next weekend, and after that I will be on vacation.  [...]

We went to see Shakespeare in the Park last week.  The play was Julius Caesar, and it was a good production, but what came to my mind, sitting out on Art Hill on a perfect summer night, were some words from another Shakespeare play, words that have been coming back to me again and again [...]

Our community has suffered several sad losses lately, so I revisited Ethical Culture Leader Arthur Dobrin’s little booklet “Love Is Stronger Than Death.” You can read it online here. His words are very helpful to anyone who is grieving, which includes all of us at one time or another. It’s also helpful [...]

A couple links to some powerful words I’ve come across this week:  This one is a blog entry by Jean Sara Rohe, the student speaker who was in the news recently for her speech criticizing her school’s commencement speaker, Senator John McCain.  She describes her decision to take the action she did, and the transcript [...]

The U.S. Senate is voting this week on the anti-marriage amendment to the Constitution, which would take away the right of states to decide the issue of same-sex marriage and would legalize discrimination in the document that is supposed to be the last, best defense of our rights.
As you can tell, this is not an [...]