The weather report says no snow tomorrow morning, so come to BES, hear
what is expected to be a landmark talk by our part-time Leader, Hugh
Taft-Morales, and stay warm and dry.
"*Ethical Culture as More Than a Religion*" by Hugh Taft-Morales,
Ethical Culture Leader-in-Training
A confirmed secularist for most of his life, Hugh Taft-Morales now calls
Ethical Culture his religion. He does so, however, while simultaneously
advocating that Ethical Culture is more than a religion. The genius of
Felix Adler, founder of the movement, was in placing ethical commitment
to the worth of all people above any religious or philosophical
characteristics. While Ethical Culture has a humanist religious hearth
that offers warm inspiration to many, those not "religiously minded"
need not gather round the fire. In ethical relationships and deed --
independent of any religious claim - is where Ethical Culture lives.
*Hugh Taft-Morale*s is an Ethical Culture Leaders in Training assigned
to BES. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland". He taught philosophy and
history in high school for twenty-five years, graduated from Yale
College in 1979, earned a Masters in Philosophy in 1986 from University
of Kent in England. Hugh just received a certificate in Humanist
Leadership from the Humanist Institute in May of 2009.
We will also have activities before and after Hugh speaks for those who
want to stay out of the rain.
*Mindfulness Meditation* at 9:30 am and *Adler Study Group *at 12:30
pm. See Page 7 of /BESpeak/.
You should have recently received the December /BESpeak/ in the mail or
an email message with the following link to it.
http://BaltimoreEthicalSociety.org/Documents/BESpeak_2009_12.pdf .We are
using the email link rather than emailing it directly so as not to
overburden the in-boxes of those without broadband access. And we are
sending it by email rather than regular mail to conserve the Society's
resources. All the program information is also available at our web
site http://www.BaltimoreEthicalSociety.org. However, if you wish to
receive a hard copy of /BESpeak /by regular mail, please contact us to
make the needed arrangements.
--
*S**tephen Meskin*
"The trouble with news is that it gives us the impression we know
something, whereas the real news is that our ignorance is so vast as to
make each of us dangerous." Djelloul Marbrook
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