Just because we are staying home and can’t go to the meetinghouse these days doesn’t mean we’re not getting together. Our platforms, programs, and classes continue online with robust participation. You are invited to join the “distance socializing.”Read More
Adult Ed
Materials for our “Being White and its Hidden Assumptions” Workshops
The Being White and its Hidden Assumptions workshops have been taking place since the beginning of 2016. Here is a sampling of videos, articles and a song that have been used as reference or have been shown at the workshops: 17 Books On Race Every White Person Needs To Read Rhiannon Giddens based her lyrics […]
The Story and the People Behind Do Tell!
Everyone has a story to tell. So say the members who founded and have nurtured DoTell!, the monthly story night at Ethical Culture. In storytelling, people can be seen and heard and they can find a connection with others. This is the first in a series of stories putting the spotlight on one of our long-running programs or classes.Read More
Discussion Series: Ethical Culture Issues on the Edge
A discussion series led by Society Leader Joseph Chuman will make use of the new online Ethical Culture journal “Reflections,” published by the American Ethical Union. Each issue includes short articles by Ethical Culture leaders on a common theme relevant to Ethical Culture. The topics: 1. Given the central respect Ethical Culture places on the […]
10 Questions for Humanists
During his platform address in October, Arthur Dobrin, leader emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, posed the following 10 questions, suggesting that members consider each one for a moment. 1. What are you called upon to do as a humanist? 2. How does the idea of the dignity and worth of every […]
Ethical Reads Book Club
We begin with nonfiction (though we am open to fiction) by reading the Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, a science writer for the New Yorker who presents a convincing and sobering case that we are in the middle of the 6th great die off or extinction of all existing life on the earth. Possible future […]
