Ethics Is Our Religion
Events
| « | August 08, 2008 - December 06, 2008 | » |
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08 / 8
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08 / 9
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08 / 10
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08 / 11
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Monthly practice of connection-building communication. Held in Alexandria. Open to members of NoVES and others who've attended meetings at the Society. We're using the book Nonviolent Communication Workbook available on Sundays at the book table or at http://www.noves.org/nvc/ Please use the contact form to indicate interest if you'd like to join this group. | ||
08 / 12
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08 / 13
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08 / 14
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08 / 15
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08 / 16
Start: 9:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
Regular board meeting of the Society. Members of the Society are welcome to attend or to make proposals. Please email the President to propose an item for the agenda or to indicate you'll attend (we would like to make sure there are enough seats for everyone). | ||
08 / 17
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08 / 18
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08 / 19
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08 / 20
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08 / 21
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:30 pm
NoVES provides officiants for weddings, commitment ceremonies, and other life passage ceremonies. This session is for NoVES members -- with a few invited guests from other Societies -- to explore and learn about the process and commitment of being an Ethical Culture Officiant. Contact Jone Lewis, Leader, if you have questions, are interested in attending, or are planning to attend. | ||
08 / 22
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08 / 23
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08 / 24
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08 / 25
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08 / 26
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08 / 27
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08 / 28
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08 / 29
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08 / 30
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08 / 31
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09 / 1
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Ellen Dinerman and Jim Perdue are hosting the annual Labor Day picnic for members and friends of the Ethical Society. | ||
09 / 2
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09 / 3
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09 / 4
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09 / 5
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09 / 6
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09 / 7
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:30 pm
Welcome back after time off from Sunday meetings -- and, for others, welcome for the first time! As is usual, our Leader, Jone Johnson Lewis, begins the year with the opening address. This year's opening topic: "Listening to Your Life." | ||
09 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Monthly practice of connection-building communication. Held in Alexandria. Open to members of NoVES and others who've attended meetings at the Society. We're using the book Nonviolent Communication Workbook available on Sundays at the book table or at http://www.noves.org/nvc/ Please use the contact form to indicate interest if you'd like to join this group. | ||
09 / 9
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09 / 10
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09 / 11
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09 / 12
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09 / 13
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09 / 14
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:15 pm
Standing on the bluff overlooking the largest landfill in Latin America evoked to Hugh Taft-Morales an image crafted by Felix Adler, founder of Ethical Culture: We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them. This describes spiritual pains that Adler insisted we must overcome in order to be more effective agents of change. To save a few, we must understand the suffering of many. | ||
09 / 15
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09 / 16
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09 / 17
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09 / 18
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09 / 19
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09 / 20
Start: 9:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
Regular board meeting of the Society. Members of the Society are welcome to attend or to make proposals. Please email the President to propose an item for the agenda or to indicate you'll attend (we would like to make sure there are enough seats for everyone). | ||
09 / 21
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:15 pm
Jay Keller of the Interfaith Alliance will describe our his organization is working to ensure faith and government do not become too entangled, endangering both. The Interfaith Alliance is a national organization founded in 1994 to protect faith and freedom by respecting individual rights, protecting the boundaries between religion and government, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism and build common ground. The Interfaith Alliance has 185,000 members across the country representing 75 faith traditions a well as those of no faith tradition. It is supported by 47 local activist groups and a cyber-network of 45,000 people. | ||
09 / 22
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09 / 23
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09 / 24
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09 / 25
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09 / 26
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09 / 27
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09 / 28
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:15 pm
Humanists, and others thoughful about their faith, often find it difficult to explain their religious views in a few words. Ask an Ethical Society member or Unitarian to describe their religious views, and you might be in for a long night. But being concise can help clarify what is essential to a subject. Adam McNaughton, a songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland, has distilled Hamlet into a wonderful song lasting three minutes. It doesn't have the richness of the full five acts, but the outline is there. The Golden Rule is the result of a similar demand for concision. Michael Franch will explain his religion in three sentences, while avoiding its reduction to mere aphorisms. Your sentences might not be quite the same, but they would probably be similar. (Disclosure: This platform address will be longer than three sentences.) | ||
09 / 29
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09 / 30
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10 / 1
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10 / 2
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10 / 3
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10 / 4
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10 / 5
Start: 11:00 am
Relationships are central to an ethical human life, but we're only human and make mistakes. Ethical relationships are a lifelong learning process, and often we act in those relationships in ways we regret. Often others act in ways that trigger resentment in us, and get in the way of wanting to stay in relationship. When is forgiveness appropriate, and how do we get to the point where we can forgive another? How might we act so as to elicit forgiveness? How do we move beyond mistakes towards ever more ethical relationships?
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10 / 6
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10 / 7
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10 / 8
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10 / 9
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10 / 10
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10 / 11
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10 / 12
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:15 pm
In her book, OLD AGE IN A NEW AGE (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007), journalist Beth Baker tells the story of a new generation of visionary advocates and practitioners who are transforming both the culture of nursing homes and the way we view aging. She takes readers on a journey into some of the best places in America for elders to live. In these remarkable places, residents have a say in their everyday lives, enjoy an environment that looks and feels like an ordinary home, live with dignity and purpose, and find comfort in close relationships with caregivers. She will share surprising lessons she learned from this emerging culture change movement -- and what this movement shares with Ethical Culture. | ||
10 / 13
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Monthly practice of connection-building communication. Held in Alexandria. Open to members of NoVES and others who've attended meetings at the Society. We're using the book Nonviolent Communication Workbook available on Sundays at the book table or at http://www.noves.org/nvc/ Please use the contact form to indicate interest if you'd like to join this group. | ||
10 / 14
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10 / 15
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10 / 16
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10 / 17
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10 / 18
Start: 9:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
Regular board meeting of the Society. Members of the Society are welcome to attend or to make proposals. Please email the President to propose an item for the agenda or to indicate you'll attend (we would like to make sure there are enough seats for everyone). | ||
10 / 19
Start: 11:00 am
In 1991, William Strauss and Neil Howe published their book, Generations, about cycles in American history and how these affect different age cohorts differently. Baby boomers, Gen X, the Millennial Generation -- how are these groups different? The ideas have been used in politics, organizational understanding, and even such diverse fields as educational planning and advertising. Jone Johnson Lewis, NoVES Leader, will outline the ideas of this cultural theory, and look at some ways it might shed some light on ethical issues of the day. She'll also ponder its insights into our own movement's history and on how we might build our own Ethical Societies to address the issues that are important to our current members and members of the future. In last spring's service auction, a member of NoVES picked this topic for Jone to address sometime during this year -- knowing that Jone had also found read this book and found it interesting. | ||
10 / 20
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10 / 21
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10 / 22
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10 / 23
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10 / 24
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10 / 25
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10 / 26
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10 / 27
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Twice monthly practice of connection-building communication. Held in Alexandria. Open to members of NoVES and others who've attended meetings at the Society. We're using the book Nonviolent Communication Workbook available on Sundays at the book table or at http://www.noves.org/nvc/ Please use the contact form to indicate interest if you'd like to join this group. | ||
10 / 28
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10 / 29
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10 / 30
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10 / 31
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11 / 1
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11 / 2
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:15 pm
We all love to complain about stress, but it seems to have become a valued part of our lives. If you’re not stressed then you must be out of the main flow of things, right?
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11 / 3
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11 / 4
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11 / 5
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11 / 6
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11 / 7
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11 / 8
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11 / 9
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:15 pm
In the wake of the election storm of 2008, democracy is challenged in many ways. It must respond to international terrorism, disintegration of the wall separating religion from government, superficiality of sound-bite staged media coverage, the substitution of consumerist preference for wise leadership, and a selfish individualism corrosive of the common good. On top of this, the election has stirred up a culture war wounding and disillusioning many. | ||
11 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Monthly practice of connection-building communication. Held in Alexandria. Open to members of NoVES and others who've attended meetings at the Society. We're using the book Nonviolent Communication Workbook available on Sundays at the book table or at http://www.noves.org/nvc/ Please use the contact form to indicate interest if you'd like to join this group. | ||
11 / 11
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11 / 12
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11 / 13
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11 / 14
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11 / 15
Start: 9:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
Regular board meeting of the Society. Members of the Society are welcome to attend or to make proposals. Please email the President to propose an item for the agenda or to indicate you'll attend (we would like to make sure there are enough seats for everyone). | ||
11 / 16
Start: 10:00 am
Cultivating Inner and Outer Peace: What's the relationship of inner and outer peace -- do we seek inner peace first in order to be more effective in working for outer peace, or do we need to work first for a more peaceful world in order to be able to find personal peace? What are some ways that we can, as individuals and as a community, work towards a more peaceful world, while working as well to embody peace ourselves? Jone Johnson Lewis will share some ideas and practices that may help work for both inner and outer peace more effectively. | ||
11 / 17
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11 / 18
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11 / 19
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11 / 20
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11 / 21
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11 / 22
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11 / 23
Start: 11:10 am
End: 1:30 pm
The Northern Virginia Ethical Society (NoVES) celebrates the Thanksgiving season today with "Stone Salad," sharing food with members, guests, and the needy. All are welcome! The festival started over twenty years ago with the birth of NoVES, and is based upon an old tale. No one in a village would offer hospitality to three hungry soldiers; the "stone soup" they prepared taught the villagers valuable lessons in sharing and cooperation. During Stone Salad, NoVES members contribute salad ingredients, breads, desserts, and other delicious items to create a feast they share with the congregation and visitors. The festival encompasses the needy as well: NoVES Sunday School children make meals for the homeless, and the congregation contributes nonperishable food and personal items to help the homeless. Join us in our celebration of life and community! | ||
11 / 24
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11 / 25
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11 / 26
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11 / 27
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11 / 28
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11 / 29
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11 / 30
Start: 11:00 am
The Northern Virginia Ethical Society wishes you a happy holiday season! A couple of thoughts: Thornton Wilder: "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." P. J. O'Rourke: "Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year." | ||
12 / 1
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12 / 3
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12 / 4
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12 / 5
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12 / 6
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Jone Johnson Lewis, NoVES Leader
