Second Annual One-Act Play Contest

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February Newsletter

The February issue of our newsletter, Ethical Views is now online. Read it for a brief description of our upcoming schedule of Sunday programs, including:

• Varieties of Valentines: The Many Shades of Love;
  
• The Importance of Cultural Identity for African Americans;
  
• Is it Time for Reparations?;
  and
  
• Langston Hughes

Also in this issue:

• EHSoP President Temma Fishman continues to reveal what goes on behind the scenes at our Society; and
• Morris Dees, Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), writes to us about continuing the connection between the Ethical Culture Movement and the SPLC.

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Bullied

The EHSoP's Ethical Action Committee, in support of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program, presents this critically acclaimed film based on a true story of a gay high school student. Wednesday, February 1, 8:00 PM Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Kate Esposito

Get to Know Us Social

The Get to Know Us Social offers interested visitors and newcomers the opportunity to mingle over wine and cheese with established members as we all review the ideas central to the Ethical Society’s special religious perspective. We will reflect upon Ethical Humanism’s key tenets—the intrinsic worth of every human being, naturalism, nontheism and ethics as a way of life. We will contemplate theimportance of this philosophical slant, as it pertains to us, as individuals and as a collective.

The program will be led by Hugh Taft- Morales, the new, dynamic leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia. Monday, February 6 at 7:30 PM.

The Day the Universe Changed: A philosophically fun video and discussion series

Come view and discuss a video series by James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed. Burke explores with wit and wisdom links between knowledge and reality through stories about the history of Western Civilization.

Join Ethical Culture Leader Hugh Taft- Morales from 7:30-9:30 PM on Sunday, February 19 for the sixth installment of this series: “Credit Where It's Due: The Factory & Marketplace Revolution.” Come even if you missed the earlier episodes. Open to the public.

Great Thinkers Discussion Series

Stimulating monthly conversations about some historical American thinkers connected to humanism and freethought. Hugh Taft-Morales, Leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, hosts a series of dialogues with local groups and authors, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Free and open to the public.

The second in the series will be on Monday, February 20, at 7:00 PM: “Emerson and the Conduct of Life,” a discussion with H. G. Callaway, Ph.D.

School for Ethics

Worldly Wisdom: Great Books and the Meaning of Life. James Sloan Allen has created a humanist approach to the Great Books. "Worldly wisdom is made up of good ideas and useful humanism that help us understand our lives and give meaning to them in this world." The book, Worldly Wisdom, is a series of commentaries that follow human wisdom from Homer's Iliad to the works of Sartre and Martin Luther King. His focus is the humanist ideas that appear in all these historic writings.

The meetings are planned for the third Tuesday of the month. The next class is Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00 PM. This month's reading is Freud’s "Civilization and its Discontents,” presented by Ron Coburn.

Dates to remember

Sunday, January 29
Why Support the Southern Poverty Law Center?, platform, 11:00 AM

Wednesday, February 1
Education Committee meeting, 6:30 PM
Ethical Action Committee showing of film "Bullied," 8:00 PM

Saturday, February 4
Darwin Day Celebration, pot luck & party, 7:00-10:00 PM

Sunday, February 5
Varieties of Valentines, platform, 11:00 AM

Monday, February 6
Get to Know Us Social, class 7:30 PM

Wednesday, February 8
Finance Committee meeting, 6:30 PM
Community Committee meeting, 7:30 PM

Sunday, February 12
Importance of Cultural Identity for African Americans, platform, 11:00 AM

Tuesday, February 14
Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty meeting, 7:00 PM

Wednesday, February 15
Board of Trustees' meeting, 6:30 PM

Thursday, February 16
Amnesty International meeting, 7:00 PM

Sunday, February 19
Is It Time for Reparations?, platform, 11:00 AM
Day the Universe Changed, class. 7:00 PM

Monday, February 20
Great Thinkers: Emerson, class, 7:00 PM

Tuesday, February 21
Worldly Wisdom: Freud, class 7:00 PM

Wednesday, February 22
Camp Linden Board meeting, 7:00 PM

Sunday, February 26
Langston Hughes, platform, 11:00 AM