The comments in my last blog entry on the freethought billboards brought up the issue of billboards as visual pollution, which I hadn’t considered before, and it reminded me of a current discussion over whether the Ethical Society should light up our building at night. On the one hand, it’s a beautiful building, and [...]

I just came back from a retreat with the National Leaders Council and from giving my “Atheism Anonymous” address at the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, NJ, which is a great group with a thriving Sunday School and excellent ethical action projects, most notably their political-asylum-seekers sanctuary program.
While I was at Bergen, [...]

Hi Everyone,
I was fighting off a cold last week and haven’t had many coherent blog-worthy thoughts, but since our last two Sunday platforms were so popular, I just wanted you to know that they will be up on the podcast page soon, and we will also have written versions available on the site.
For [...]

Ethical Leader Arthur Dobrin, who has long-time ties to Kenya, has an article in Newsday about the current situation there, the news from his Kenyan friends, and the agony of watching the crisis from afar. You can read his article here.

The North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture, which I had a great time visiting a couple weekends ago, sponsors a weekly local radio show on ethics, hosted by member James Coley. James and his guests cover a wide variety of topics in the one-hour discussions, and the shows that I’ve heard are of a [...]

The shooting death last night of several of our citizens is shocking and hard to comprehend, and especially sad because those who died and were injured were there last night to serve the public good, on the police force and in city government.
When something so tragic happens, there is an impulse to jump [...]

The podcast of my recent talk, “Spending Our Ethical Currency,” is now up on our audio library page.
This morning I heard the Ethical Society Nursery School kids playing downstairs, and an adult voice said, “This isn’t a ‘We got it’ game; this is a ‘Let’s move it’ game.”
I don’t know what they were playing, [...]

I had my first minor fall on my scooter this week—I fell over at a stop sign, having forgotten that (1) slight drizzle is actually more dangerous than heavy rain, as it brings oil to the surface of the road without washing it away (or something—don’t quote me on that science); and (2) two-wheeled vehicles [...]