• From the Leader - Teaching Evolution is Important
• ESWoW Community Call - Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 with Anne Klaeysen
• Ethical Action - Ethical Action Reports
• From Around the Movement - American Ethical Union Assembly - Save the Date
• Closing Words - A. Eustace Haydon

From the Leader
For Darwin Day this year, Susan Rose focuses on Teaching Evolution  and how important science education is.

ESWoW Community Call - February 19, 2012
An Update on the Evolution Wars
Presidential candidates who don't believe in evolution. School districts trying to give equal weight to teaching "intelligent design."  Why is science important to Ethical Culturists?  Are there connections between science and poetry?

Please join the ESWoW Community call with guest Dr. Anne Klaeysen, one of the Leaders of the NY Society for Ethical Culture.  Anne spoke at the NY Society on Feb. 5, 2012 on "Inherit the Wind" Revisited: An Update on the Evolution Wars (video) in honor of Darwin Day (Feb. 12).  She will join us to discuss these current day concerns about science, evolution and public policy. I just listened to this Platform and appreciate Anne's combination of good science, clear analysis and poetry.  

Please join us on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET.
The number to join the call is 866-740-1260, access code 5766842#. This call will last one hour.

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"Ethical Culture As Religion" was written by Jone Johnson Lewis.  Jone has been the Leader of the Northern Virginia Ethical Society since July, 1997.

Jone is both a certified Ethical Culture Leader and an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister (both since 1991). She was a programmer, trainer, and executive in the retail and insurance industries before pursuing a profession in humanistic religious leadership and ministry. She earned an M.Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School, and her undergraduate degree was from Mundelein College's Women in Management program. She is also a graduate of the Humanist Institute, later serving twice as a co-mentor of that program.

Jone has many interests, including human relationships, history (especially religious history and women's history), science, environmental issues, Nonviolent Communication™, politics, website design and writing, and music.

Author of "An Ethical Society," Jone Johnson Lewis has been the Leader of the Northern Virginia Ethical Society since July, 1997.

Jone is both a certified Ethical Culture Leader and an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister (both since 1991). She was a programmer, trainer, and executive in the retail and insurance industries before pursuing a profession in humanistic religious leadership and ministry. She earned an M.Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School, and her undergraduate degree was from Mundelein College's Women in Management program. She is also a graduate of the Humanist Institute, later serving twice as a co-mentor of that program.

Jone has many interests, including human relationships, history (especially religious history and women's history), science, environmental issues, Nonviolent Communication™, politics, website design and writing, and music.

Philosophical Foundations of Ethical Culture 
David Sprintzen's address to the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester on Sunday Jan. 17, 2010

Foundations of Ethical Culture: Ethical Culture History
Dr. Howard Radest
http://www.nysec.org/2009/10/22/radest-foundations-ec-history/

Sustainable Living and Ethical Culture
Bart Worden
New York Society for Ethical Culture Sunday Address
January 24, 2010
http://www.nysec.org/2010/01/24/worden-sustainable-living-and-ethical-cu...

Reclaiming Ethical Culture Spirituality
Anne Klaeysen, Leader, NY Society for Ethical Culture. 
Anne gives us a guided meditation for the opening words of this Platform. She shares on the distinctive niche Ethical Culture fills in the world. You can find her talk on the website of the Ethical Society of Northern Westchester (in NY) (http://www.esnw.org/Main.html). You can then select Listen to ESNW Lectures in the left-hand column and find Anne's talk on that page.

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June 2009, AEU Assembly 
Jone Johnson Lewis, Leader, Northern Virginia Ethical Society 

(c) 2009 Jone Johnson Lewis, used with permission 

I am honored to have been asked to share with you this morning a little bit about Anna Garlin Spencer, one of my favorite figures in American progressive and religious history. I've been asked to speak for 10-15 minutes – it's difficult to tell you in that short of a time about this remarkable woman. At the time of her death, one obituary stated that she was certainly one of the ten, and perhaps one of the five, most influential women who ever lived. Yet she is nearly forgotten today – partly because she was never #1 in an organization, and history likes to tell the story of the #1 person, and often forgets those who work in other ways, often in dozens of organizations and not just one. 

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