Hugh Taft-Morales, Leader Philadelphia Ethical Society In the shadow of her famous husband’s life and death, Coretta Scott King often felt unseen and unheard. But as her daughter Dr. Bernice King pointed out, “Before she was a King, my mother was a civil rights activist, a member of the NAACP and the Race Relations and [...]

Allen Crawford, Illustrator Crawford, winner of multiple awards for illustration, will share and discuss his two most recent books, both devotionals to the natural world. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself is an illustrated, hand-lettered edition of Walt Whitman’s landmark pantheistic poem, “Song of Myself.” A Wild Promise celebrates the Endangered Species Act. Crawford’s work is [...]

Hugh Taft-Morales, Leader Philadelphia Ethical Society The U. S. immigration system needs fundamental repair, but not in manner chosen by the new administration. We must better incorporate ten million undocumented immigrants into our country, most of whom have lived here constructively for more than a decade! They do not deserve to be treated as criminals. [...]

Hugh Taft-Morales, Leader Philadelphia Ethical Society The theory of evolution fundamentally changed western paradigms about the universe. No longer were human beings viewed as the pinnacle of life, divinely created as part of a master plan to serve an invisible, all-powerful creator. Suddenly we were the product of random mutations and interactions with the environment [...]