Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, February 2014 Last December I had a conversation that I often—perhaps I might say, too often—engage in these days. A gentleman who was about […]
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Is Respect for Culture Good for Women?
Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, May 4, 2014 It is a well-worn cliché that we can look at the glass as half full or as half empty. What is […]
Speaking of Ethics: Living a Humanist Life
It is not often that an Ethical Culturist publishes a book directed primarily at an Ethical Culture audience. Speaking of Ethics by leader, Joe Chuman, does precisely that. The book […]
4/6/2014: How Can People Do This to Each Other? Rwanda, Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities
The killing began 20 years ago this April. April 4th to be exact. It lasted for a hundred days, and when it was over, 800,000 Rwandans, the overwhelming majority who […]
September 8, 2013 Platform: Resilience, Humanism and the Affirmation of Life
My recent experience with recovery from surgery (this summer I underwent my fifth orthopedic surgery in five years) has gotten me to think about the amazing tendency of the body […]
Prudes and Libertines: Politics, Religion and Polarization
Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County April 1, 2012 My title this morning comes from an important, indeed superlative, book, entitled […]