Yesterday I attended a lecture at Wash U by ethicist Peter Singer, who has long been a favorite of mine for works such as How Are We to Live? and The Ethics of What We Eat.
Yesterday’s lecture was a presentation of the ideas from his 1999 NY Times article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty.” [...]

Ethical Action Resolution of the American Ethical Union
Statement Reaffirming Its Opposition to Torture*
Adopted by Consensus by the 93rd Assembly of the AEU
Austin, Texas, April 2008
WHEREAS: Respect and reverence for human dignity is the foremost principle of Ethical Culture, and the use of torture is the most heinous violation of human dignity, and
WHEREAS: The American Ethical [...]

This is long for a blog post, but in honor of Earth Day, here is the address I gave at the AEU Assembly last week:
For the platform address today you’ll be hearing from three leaders on the theme of this Assembly, “Where We Live.”
I’m going to speak from a personal and environmental point of [...]

BTW, I’ll be in Austin this week for the AEU annual assembly, at which among other things I hope we will be passing a statement against torture. I’ll report on the Assembly on my return. Have a good week.

Who says Missouri isn’t at the forefront of the environmental movement? Turns out we have one of the very few viable eco-villages in America. I ran across Dancing Rabbit Eco-Village online–they are a ten-year-old community in northeast Missouri in which people are trying to live sustainably, build naturally, and live cooperatively (30 people share [...]

While you’re doing your taxes, you might be dreaming about the check that many of us will soon be getting from the government, to help stimulate the economy. Here are a few things to consider before you spend it:
1. Although it won’t help with the “stimulus,” if you have debts, particularly credit-card debt, pay [...]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a new blog called “Civil Religion,” and I’ve been asked to be one of the participants. I’m glad to be speaking for Ethical Religion and religious humanism in another forum, and I hope you’ll all check out the blog. My first post has elicited questions from a commenter on [...]

Billy and I marked Earth Hour Saturday night with an hour of reading aloud by candlelight. Bill and I (mostly Bill) are reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, about the 1860 presidential election and its aftermath. Saturday night we got up to the part where Lincoln won his party’s nomination, on [...]