Love, like relationships, requires continuous nurturing and support. Love means calling someone to their best self, and not giving up when the going gets tough. Join us for a festival where we will shine a light on the persistent nature of love. We’ll have songs, a...
Every emotion, including anger, is part of our personal natural alarm system. Anger is a kind of human wisdom, warning us of a threat or of injustice. If we ignore, dismiss, or suppress our anger, we’ll miss that wisdom, and do measurable physical damage to our own...
A central idea of Ethical Culture is that we become a complete human being, more of our true self, through relationships. Our “selves” grow and blossom through relationships. Turns out, that is what science is now telling us, too. The implication? Our connections to...
In most languages, some version of “How are you?” is a common social greeting. We mostly treat it as just a mantra exchanged, and only with close friends, if then, do we treat it seriously. RYSEC Leader Jone Johnson Lewis will reflect on why this is such a common...
Two chief commitments of Ethical Culture are: “To bring out the best in others, and thereby in yourself, and to work for a more humane world.” Jim’s “elevator speech” adaptation of these tenets is “helping each other to change for a world of justice in peace.” We will...
