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Platforms
A Platform Address, often referred to as a Platform, is the presentation of a talk given at an Ethical Culture Society.
At most Ethical Societies that meet in person, the Platform Meeting is held on Sunday mornings, at some, on Sunday afternoons.
Many Leaders from around the Movement have their Platforms posted on the website from their Society. This gives us the opportunity to read, listen to, or sometimes even watch Platform talks from many Leaders around the Movement. We will even be posting Platforms from Ethical Culture Leaders from the past so you can get an overview of the history of the Ethical Movement.
Please share your thoughts and questions about these Platforms.
Organic Religion -- Curt Collier
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Why Humanists Need Chaplains
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Guest Platforms
Philosophical Foundations of Ethical Culture
David Sprintzen's address to the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester on Sunday Jan. 17, 2010Foundations 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.Pain, Loss, Love: An Ethical Humanist Perspective - Jim White
Pain, Loss, Love: An Ethical Humanist Perspective
Ethical Society of Northern Westchester
Jim White is now Leader at the Riverdale-Yonkers Ethical Society in New York, but his first "gig" as a Leader was at the Essex Society in Maplewood, NJ. His talk shares about how Humanists can experience pain of varying kinds in their lives and often use the pain as an inspiration for living a more ethical life.
Bertrand Russell Conquers Happiness, Kate Lovelady
Kate Lovelady, Leader of the St. Louis Ethical Society, spoke in August about Bertrand Russell's approach to happiness in our lives.She includes some thoughts about adding small practices to have a more zestful life and even shares some of Russell's thoughts about women:
http://www.ethicalstl.org/platforms/ESSTLPlatform2009-06-28.mp3
Can Virtue Be Taught?, Howard Radest
Howard Radest spoke at the Ethical Society of Northern Westchester (ESNW.org) on October 4, 2009 on the topic Can Virtue Be Taught? (The possibility and impossibility of moral education) (You need to scroll down a bit to find his talk.) While the sound quality isn't the greatest, I thought it was well worth listening to. You might especially appreciate the question and answer session at the end. This is Howard Radest's biography as it appeared in the program of the ESNW and you can find out even more about him on the Philosopedia website. Read more »
[Platform Discussion] John Lovejoy Elliott - Spiritual Discoveries
John Lovejoy Elliott
Spiritual Discoveries
In the beginning of this piece John Lovejoy Elliott tells us, "My ultimate faith in the Ethical Movement and my hope for the future of religion in this world are founded on my associations with living men and women."I don't know what year Elliott wrote that in, but I'm guessing it was before 1933 when Felix Adler died. My ultimate faith in the Ethical Movement and my hope for the future of Ethical Culture certainly are founded on my associations with living men and women, including you who are reading this. Yet I am happy that we have ancestors to call on, to study, to provoke our own thoughts and actions.
John Lovejoy Elliott - Spiritual Discoveries
John Lovejoy Elliott
In the beginning of this piece John Lovejoy Elliott tells us, "My ultimate faith in the Ethical Movement and my hope for the future of religion in this world are founded on my associations with living men and women."
I don't know what year Elliott wrote that in, but I'm guessing it was before 1933 when Felix Adler died. My ultimate faith in the Ethical Movement and my hope for the future of Ethical Culture certainly are founded on my associations with living men and women, including you who are reading this. Yet I am happy that we have ancestors to call on, to study, to provoke our own thoughts and actions.
2010 AEU Certification Ceremony Talk, Amanda Poppei
Amanda Poppei earned a BA in Religious Studies from Yale University. She also has a Masters of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. Amanda started young imagining a life in religious leadership and is a Unitarian Universalist minister, with a strong background in interfaith work. She did her intern work at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, MD, and served as a chaplain at the Washington Hospital Center, where she completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. Read more »
2010 AEU Certification Ceremony Talk, Hugh Taft-Morales
Comments about Strength from Hugh for Certification Ceremony
Hugh Taft-Morales is originally a born and raised Connecticut boy. He graduated from Yale University and earned a Masters in Philosophy from University of Kent at Canterbury, England. He taught philosophy and history for twenty-five years in Washington, D. C.
He discovered and grabbed hold of Ethical Culture around 1994 at the Washington Society, eventually serving on their Board and as their president. He is a graduate of the Humanist Institute and of the Leadership Training Program of the American Ethical Union. Hugh has served as an Intern Leader in Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Ethical Society Without Walls. He was very busy the last few years and he has plenty of friends here in this room.
Next year Hugh will continue working as a leader with the Baltimore Society and ESWoW. He is also currently director of the Washington Society’s Coming-of-Age Program, and serves as Secretary of the AEU National Leaders Council.
On the more personal side he is married to Maureen, a Latin American analyst for the Congressional Research Service and they have three (he says wonderful) children - Sean (23), Maya (17), and Justin (14). Read more »
