Last Sunday three of our members shared some of their life stories with us in our “This I Believe: Members Speak” platform. (You can listen to the podcast here.) One of the speakers “came out” as a political conservative and expressed his discomfort with the overwhelming political liberalism of most of the Society’s [...]

One thing the Wall Street chaos and bailout plan has made me revisit is the question Why does inequality matter? For years now research has shown the rich getting much, much richer and the rest of us standing still or falling behind. Some people are upset by this on principle; others say, So [...]

Last Saturday I again took part in a Peaceful Presence group at Hope Clinic (that’s hopeclinic.com, not the similarly named abstinence-only site). Peaceful Presence are clergy and seminary students who stand in support of women’s reproductive rights and lend silent moral support to the women coming to get an abortion at the clinic. [...]

[OOPS! If you read this before, I'm a week early. The Green Homes festival is September 27-28, and the workshops are next weekend. Sorry. I edited it to reflect reality below.]
As part of next weekend’s Green Homes festival, there will be over 20 separate workshops on green and sustainable housing, energy, and [...]

The audio file for the platform address I gave on the similarities and differences between Ethical Culture and Unitarian Universalism is now available on our podcast page. This was a very popular platform–clearly there’s a lot of interest in this topic. Additional comments, thoughts, comparisons, corrections are welcome–both here and/or on the platform discussion [...]

I try to keep away from political races on this blog, since the Ethical Society is a religious organization, not a political action committee. But reading about Sarah Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy has brought up so many emotions. I believe in human beings’ right to choose if and when to have children, and if [...]