We live in a time when paranoia and conspiracy theories seem to dominate the political scene. But as RYSEC Clergy Leader Jone Johnson Lewis will document, paranoia and conspiracy theories have been around U.S. politics for a very long time. She’ll look at some of...
As we consider this month how we hold history, this week we’ll consider how the stories we grew up with about how life works still affect us, even when, or especially when, we aren’t conscious of those stories. RYSEC Leader Jone Johnson Lewis will be speaking from the...
The Enlightenment in Europe has often been cited as a foundation for modern humanism, human rights, and human liberation. The Enlightenment is often lauded as the advent of the Age of Reason — and critiqued as the advent of pseudo-scientific ideas about the primary...
Historically and today, a central commitment in Ethical Societies is to relationship. How does this differentiate us from some other groups and philosophies of life? Where did the concept come from? How does relationship motivate our actions, as individuals and as...
What’s in RYSEC’s future as we emerge, slowly, from this pandemic year-plus? What is the future of our, or any, Ethical Society? What might community look like in the new time ahead? What lessons do we want to carry forward? What’s this “hybrid” meeting idea all...
