By Janet Glass In September of 2015, the disturbing photo below right went viral. It shows a young victim of the mass Syrian refugee crisis and the Turkish police officer […]
Janet Glass
I wished I had discovered Ethical sooner, and now I have the privilege to be in a position to give back. The TV version of Star Trek from the late sixties is decades old, but some of the ideas it embraced have taken
ft, a young, new Ethical Culture leader-in-training in St. Louis and a self-described fellow nerd, has a Facebook page that has attracted my attention. After attending the World Humanist Congress in Chicago this August, he posted this on his page: “We will change the world. We fractious, skeptical, argumentative, individualistic band of freethinkers will usher in a more reasonable and compassionate society. We will banish superstition and prejudice and put knowledge and justice in their place. I have no doubt now.” His words landed a flutter of butterflies in my stomach.
root in new places. One of those places is in social media. James Cro
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Central Bergen GreenFaith Circle Applauds Curb on Drilling
The Central Bergen GreenFaith Circle, of which our Society is a coalition partner, sent this letter to Gov. Phil Murphy asking him to ban drilling for oil off the coast […]
Coalition partner GreenFaith presents two awards
By Janet Glass GreenFaith’s Central Bergen Circle, a coalition partner with the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, together with seven other congregations in Bergen County, honored two organizations with […]
New event in the new year: Syria Supper Club
Eat well and do good at the same time. We invite you to join a Syria Supper Club to support families of Syrian refugees recently settled in New Jersey. The […]
Hello from your new president, by Janet Glass
Star Trek, my Utopian vision of the future Ms Boe Meyerson was speaking that Sunday. Her talk was about how the original Star Trek TV series provided the viewer with […]