Our Ethics Matters themes are ways of exploring different ways of inspiring ethical living. We are all different people, so we have different ways of being inspired. In life, we tend to walk the same paths we’ve always walked. One benefit of community and...
What has “faith” got to do with humanism? Our theme this month (June 2022) is Renewing Hope. The concept of “faith” is related to hope, though not exactly the same. Some years ago, at a workshop on how congregations can work on social justice...
What is an Ethical Society for? We live in a larger world that increasingly encourages polarization, to privilege those who are already powerful while treating as disposable those who are not, and to economically value a narrow range of “productivity” over work that...
Alicia Garza wrote, “I’m so inspired when I see people who have a way that they do things, have a way that they think about the world, and they’re courageous enough to be open to listening to what the experiences are of so many of us who want to live...
Over the summer, I planned to present two Sunday platform talks on key foundations of our Ethical commitments: to human worth and to human relationship. The one on human worth has been presented (and is on our Facebook and YouTube pages as a recording), and the one...
Democracy means rule of the people, where a majority can take action, while protecting the rights of vulnerable minorities. But democracy doesn’t work if the people don’t speak up. There’s another election coming up this month in New York City. I...
