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.
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May 22, 2022: Beauty and the Body (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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May 8, 2022: On Beauty, Nurturing, and Durational Practice (Evan Nabrit)
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Apr. 24, 2022: Awakening (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Apr. 10, 2022: Remaking Our Relationship With the Dead (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Apr. 3, 2022: A Tale of Two Enlightenments (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Mar. 27, 2022: Unlocking the Power of People (James Frey Croft)
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Mar. 20, 2022: The Ethics of Social Action (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Mar. 13, 2022: Hate Crimes, Violence against Asian Americans, and Policing (Kai Zhang)
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Mar. 6, 2022: Humanism on Campus (Anne Klaeysen)
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Feb. 27, 2022: Weeds Are Flowers Too (Alex Francisco)
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Feb. 20, 2022: Beyond Diversity (Jé Hooper)
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Feb. 13, 2022: Unpacking Ableism (Rachel Kallem Whitman)
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Feb. 6, 2022: Words That Harm (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Jan. 23, 2022: Assuming Good Intentions (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Jan. 16, 2022: Striving to See (Christian Hayden)
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Jan. 9, 2022: Unhoused in New York City (Marc Greenberg)
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Dec. 12, 2021: Humanist Action Ghana (Yvonne Stennicke Larsen)
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Dec. 5, 2021: Opening to Joy (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Nov. 14, 2021: About Calvin (JR and Vanessa Ford)
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Nov. 7 2021: Living Stories (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Nov. 7, 2021: Homegrown National Park™ (Douglas W. Tallamy)
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Oct. 31, 2021: Journeys to Justice (FES)
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Oct. 24, 2021: Paranoia and Politics (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Oct. 17 2021: Democracy and the Green New Deal (Jamaal Bowman)
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Oct. 10, 2021: Cultivating Relationships (Louise Jett)
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Oct. 3, 2021: The Power of MWe (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Sep. 26, 2021: Post-Democratic America (Lincoln Mitchell)
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Sep. 21, 2021: Why We NEED a Department of Peace (Hugh Taft-Morales)
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Sep. 12, 2021: Seeing in the Dark (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Aug. 22, 2021: Our Commitment to Relationship (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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July 18, 2021: Our Commitment to Human Worth (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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June 20, 2021: From the Mouths of Babes (Chip James)
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June 6, 2021: Accountability and Antiracism (Tamir Novotny & Kristell Caballero Saucedo)
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May 9, 2021: Telling the Story of This Time (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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May 2, 2021: What Story Do We Choose (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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May 2, 2021: Jone tells a children’s story.
VIDEO
Apr. 4, 2021: Liberation and Sacrifice (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Mar. 28, 2021: All Society Platform (Congressman Jamie Raskin)
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Mar. 21, 2021: Refusing to Be Silenced (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Mar. 7, 2021: Saying YES and Saying NO (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Feb. 28, 2021: Granfalloons and Pseudo-Community (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Feb. 21, 2021: An Anti Racist Voice From the Past (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Feb. 14, 2021: What's Love Got To Do With It? (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Feb. 7, 2021: Building Beloved Community (Jé Hooper)
VIDEO
Jan. 31, 2021: Replacing Magical Thinking with Rational Discourse (AEU Platform)
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 .
VIDEO Jan. 24, 2021: Will We Walk Through the Portal? (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Jan. 17, 2021: Freeing Our Imaginations (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Jan. 10, 2021: Indigenizing Environmental Justice (Dina Gilio-Whitaker)
VIDEO Read the post-platform
Q & A document (PDF)
Dec. 13, 2020: Creating Space For Justice (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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Dec. 6, 2020: Moving On by Letting Go (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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November 15, 2020: Understand 'Defund the Police' (Alex S. Vitale, guest speaker) -- Talk and Q&A session
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Aug. 2 2020: The Lost Cause Unpacking a Myth that Pervades Our Culture (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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July 22, 2018: Ethical Heroes, The Goldmark Sisters (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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May 17/19, 2020: Is There a Tipping Point? (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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May 10, 2020: Are You My Mother? (Jé Exodus Hooper)
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May 3, 2020: On the Threshold (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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April 26, 2020 Liberation and Responsibility (Jone Johnson Lewis)
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April 19, 2020: Fragility of Life (Hugh Taft-Morales)
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April 5, 2020: Liberation Ethics (Jone Johnson Lewis)
March 22, 2020: Climate Change Action (Jessica Haller)
Apologies that we missed the first few minutes of the talk in this recording.
March 8, 2020: Reclaiming Our Stories (Ginan Rauf)
March 1, 2020: 2020 Vision: Wisdom from 100 Years of Woman Suffrage (Jone Johnson Lewis)
February 23, 2020: Gender Equity Needed Right Now (Bruce Knotts)
February 16, 2020: How Resilience Works (Jone Johnson Lewis)
February 2, 2020: The Elusive Right to Vote (Jone Johnson Lewis)
January 19, 2020: Holy Humanism! (Jone Johnson Lewis)
January 5, 2020: The Practice of Integrity (Jone Johnson Lewis)
December 8, 2019: Awe and Reverence (Jone Johnson Lewis)
November 10, 2019: Can I Be Black and Humanist? (Christian Hayden)
November 17, 2019: In the Middle of Things, Begin (Eileen Brilliant)
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October 27, 2019: Faitheist: Finding Our Common Humanity (Chris Stedman)
October 20, 2019: Ethical Living in the Face of Death (Dr. Jorge Piña and Karina Rieke)
September 22, 2019: What Does Justice Expect of Us? (Jone Johnson Lewis)
September 22, 2019: Banner Ceremony (with DuPree singing)
September 15, 2019: The Climate of Change (Jone Johnson Lewis)
Some older programs The Problem With Apologies (Jone Lewis)
October 16, 2016: The Problem With Apologies
Jone Johnson Lewis: first RYSEC talk
A talk by
Jone Johnson Lewis : this talk was Jone’s first at the Society since starting as our Leader in March 2015.
Surviving Evil: The Holocaust and Stephan H. Lewy
Surviving Evil: The Holocaust through the story of Stephan H. Lewy. VIDEO