Or she just has good taste in quotes. A while back O Magazine ran a full-page quote by Ethical Leader Algernon Black, and I’m told today’s email newsletter has this quote by the Leader Emeritus of the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, Matthew Ies Spetter: “To be human means to have the capacity for [...]

Yesterday’s platform on the similarities and differences between Ethical Culture and Unitarian Universalism (audio recordings of recent platforms will be up on the podcast page soon) brought up again the issue of humanism, and more specifically the word “humanism.” I mentioned that although both groups have lots of self-described humanists in them, Ethical Culture [...]

I’m back from the American Ethical Union Lay Leadership Summer School, and again I had an incredible time helping folks from around the country learn more about Ethical Culture and sharpen their relationship-skills in order to build stronger Ethical Societies. And I sang, danced, ate great vegan food, and admired the gorgeous Appalachian scenery, [...]

Greetings. I’m back from vacation but about to leave for 12 days to teach at the AEU Lay Leadership Summer School. I’ll be giving a platform about the experience Bill and I had at Dancing Rabbit Eco-Village (see last post) at the end of September. It was a fascinating place that brought [...]