Please note — WES will still be gathering at 10:30am in the Main Hall, at our standard time, to celebrate transition and gratitude. We will be showing the All Societies Platform in the Social Hall for those that wish for a quiet space to watch. We are thrilled to announce that our next All-Societies Platform … Continue reading The Future is Now: Our Children Putting Ethics into Action
In the era of the Third Great Awakening when the Free Religious Association was formed around such moral causes as the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage, a 27-year-old reformed Rabbi, Felix Adler, spoke out: “There is a great and crying evil in modern society… It is that narrowness of vision which shuts out the … Continue reading 11am Start Time — “How We Got Here”
For more details, please visit AEU.org. W.E.B. Du Bois: Will the Truth Set You Free?Organized by the American Ethical UnionOn February 7, 1949, renowned civil rights activist Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois gave a speech (the written version unearthed by our own Carolyn Parker) at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. We will be listening … Continue reading AEU All Societies Platform
All AEU Societies Platform. NOTE THE TIME CHANGE: 11am This 106th Assembly of the American Ethical Union has addressed “the whole truth about America” where history has been triumphant for some and traumatic for others. How do we understand and reconcile such disparity? As we truthfully acknowledge imperfection and injustice, we also confront challenges that … Continue reading Sources of Hope: Values from Our Past as We Build the Future
A convergence of significant cultural trends contributed to the success of the founders of Ethical Culture as they worked to create organizations and institutions to promote a more caring and just society. Hear Movement’s early years & our efforts going forward.
