Our Sunday platform meetings often feature a speaker or special program. Check here for a few past platform talks at the Society for Ethical Culture, in audio or video.
Jun. 4, 2023: To Everything There Is a Season (J. Lewis & C. Hayden)
May 14, 2023: Creating the Self: The Humanist’s Call to Imagine (Christian Hayden)
May 7, 2023: Cultivating Creativity (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Apr. 16, 2023: Build Power in the Bronx (Ron Harrison)
Apr. 2, 2023: Resisting Injustice (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Mar. 5, 2023: Celebrating an Ethical Heroine
Feb. 26, 2023: Approaches to Intimacy: Understanding How We Connect (Christian Hayden)
Feb. 19, 2023: The Path of Love: Loving Humanity (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Feb. 5, 2023: Love of Knowledge (Jé Exodus Hooper)
Jan. 22, 2023: Is Self-Care Selfish? (Christian Hayden)
** Apologies, we’re posting the audio only, to protect the privacy of those who attend. We don’t post videos where individuals other than the speaker are shown. **
Jan. 8, 2023: How Good to Center Down (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Dec. 11, 2022: Peacebuilding Begins With Me (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Nov. 6, 2022: Digital Nomad: Understanding Privilege and Marginalization Through Travel (Anya Lena Overmann)
Oct. 23, 2022: Courageous Space (Jé Exodus Hooper)
Oct. 16, 2022: Am I Brave Enough to Be/Mold Clay (Christian Hayden)
Oct. 9, 2022: Reflecting Goliath to David: Confronting Power and Powerlessness (Elliot Beck)
Oct. 2, 2022: Paths of Courage: Heroes and Saints (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Sept. 25, 2022: Belonging as a Way of Being (Christian Hayden)
Sept. 18, 2022: Fitting In vs. Belonging (Jone Johnson Lewis)
July 31, 2022: Taking In The Good (Jone Johnson Lewis)
July 17, 2022: Resisting Theocracy & Empire (Jone Johnson Lewis)
June 26, 2022: Hope or Despair (Jone Johnson Lewis)
June 12, 2022: Cultivating Optimism (Jone Johnson Lewis)
June 5, 2022: Glitch Art and Queerness (Sky Goodman)
May 22, 2022: Beauty and the Body (Jone Johnson Lewis)
May 8, 2022: On Beauty, Nurturing, and Durational Practice (Evan Nabrit)
Apr. 24, 2022: Awakening (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Apr. 10, 2022: Remaking Our Relationship With the Dead (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Apr. 3, 2022: A Tale of Two Enlightenments (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Mar. 27, 2022: Unlocking the Power of People (James Frey Croft)
Mar. 20, 2022: The Ethics of Social Action (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Mar. 13, 2022: Hate Crimes, Violence against Asian Americans, and Policing (Kai Zhang)
Mar. 6, 2022: Humanism on Campus (Anne Klaeysen)
Feb. 27, 2022: Weeds Are Flowers Too (Alex Francisco)
Below is a video of the platform hosted by the American Ethical Union (AEU), featuring three speakers (in order of appearance): Jone Johnson Lewis, Dr. David Sprintzen, and Christian Hayden. Here is the text of Jone Johnson Lewis’s platform address, “Democracy and Reason“. If you’d like, you can also view the complete program.
Jan. 24, 2021: Will We Walk Through the Portal? (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Jan. 17, 2021: Freeing Our Imaginations (Jone Johnson Lewis)