Events for July 15, 2024 - July 15, 2024

Ruth Dubinsky, PES Member Crucial Conversations – Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High is a go-to resource for navigating the tough conversations that occur in every aspect of life.  Ruth will offer a summary of this step-by-step path to more productive dialog. This Zoom (only) program will be at:  www.tiny.cc/phillyethics

Ken Greiff, PES Member In these days of struggle, it is fitting and proper that we remind ourselves of hopeful strategies, strategies for (as Martin Luther King would put it) the creation of the Beloved Community. The reading for this colloquy will be from a Gandhian website called Soulforce.  The readings are: (1) A Credo [...]

Erik Younge and ERTF members Please join us for an exciting, inspiring, informative program of poetry and discussion on what it means to be Woke...how to ask the hard questions. How to stand up for what is right - even when it is difficult and scary. Ending Racism Task Force members recite poems written from [...]

Christian Hayden In a strange turn of events, Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning Beloved became fodder for a political ad in the gubernatorial race of Virginia in 2021. Though it is somewhat unsurprising that targeting literature crafted by a Black woman could score easy political points, nevertheless it is unsettling that one of the greatest [...]

Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society This week we return to the archives with a platform, on Zoom, first presented on September 4, 2016. Felix Adler, the founder of Ethical Culture, chose as his first lieutenant John Lovejoy Elliott: a man best known for building caring relationships and friendships that served the marginalized of New [...]

Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society As a society with more weapons than people, the United States clearly has a “gun culture.” Does that explain the plague of mass shootings, crime-related killings, accidents, and suicides by bullet? Causes proffered for this epidemic include mental illness, toxic masculinity, economic desperation, and profiteering by weapon manufacturers, as [...]