The theater is packed. When the curtain goes up, we meet Marjorie, an 86-year-old woman in intimate and flirtatious conversation with a doting, handsome young man. Their dialogue reveals a long marriage complete with a grown daughter. The scene is jarring. How can this be? After a while the audience figures out that he is a […]
Social justice
Ethical Culture and the Ongoing Quest for Social Justice
The Ethical Culture Movement is a creature of its times, but the values it stands for are eternal. Our movement will be 130 years old next year. Its creation resulted from various streams of intellectual fervor and social upheavals that came together in the mind of Felix Adler, our founder, in the decades after the […]