Ethics Is Our Religion
Welcome!
NoVES welcomes visitors to our diverse community. People in families of all types, singles, young and old, many colors, many religious and ethnic backgrounds, from all around Northern Virginia and from many other places in the greater Washington D.C. area -- all have made NoVES their humanistic religious home.
We invite you to check us out on a Sunday morning and to join us in other activities. You just might find -- as so many others of us have -- the sort of caring, thoughtful community you didn't even know was out there -- just waiting for you to become a part of it.
Sunday Meetings
Platform Meetings and Sunday School:
11:00 a.m. Sundays,
in Vienna, Virginia
Our platform meetings typically feature a thought-provoking talk on a topic of ethical interest, along with responses, music, a story for children of all ages, and more.
Our Sunday School is devoted to teaching children how to make ethical choices, with a thoughtful, age-specific curriculum and a friendly, supportive environment.
All are welcome to attend a Sunday meeting and to bring children along for Sunday School. Casual, comfortable dress is the norm. NoVES members aim to make you feel at home!
An Ethical Culture Agenda for President Obama
Submitted by Andy Stanton on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 9:06am.Now that the election is over and President-Elect Obama is preparing to take office on January 20, 2009, there are many interest groups pushing their agendas. Liberals are eagerly anticipating that Mr. Obama will have a “progressive” agenda, while conservatives think they see signs that he is veering towards a “centrist” agenda. I’m interested in a different agenda - the Ethical Culture agenda. As Felix Adler said, we should act at all times with the recognition that every human being has worth. People must be treated as ends in and of themselves, not merely as the means to an end. Here’s my take on how the issues facing this country should be handled under an Ethical Culture agenda.
Winter Festival 2008
Submitted by Mary Ellen Stanton on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 5:30pm.In a hearing before a court held to determine if Ethical Culture should be given tax-exempt status as a religion (the court ultimately decided in favor of Ethical Culture), the Judge asked NoVES Leader Jone Johnson Lewis, "Do you allow your members to celebrate Christmas (or any other winter holiday)?
What is Ethical Culture?
Submitted by Jone Johnson Lewis on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 8:24am.Leaders in the Ethical Culture movement have been creating a new statement of identity -- another of a series of attempts in our history to describe the core of Ethical Culture -- and the statement is now finished, and online. Our Leader Intern, Hugh Taft-Morales, was one of the people who helped create the statement and bring it through the process.
Here are the first paragraphs, plus a link (below) to the full statement:
Dedicated to cultivating moral development in personal life and moral reform in society, Ethical Culture seeks to nurture relationships in which we act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in ourselves, to provide inspiration and guidance for moral living, and to transform the way humanity views the meaning of life.
Members: Not Getting Emails?
Submitted by Jone Johnson Lewis on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 11:14am.If you've changed your email address, if your emails were bouncing for a while, or if our web volunteers entered an incorrect email address, you may not be getting periodic email announcements including our Society newsletter.
Please check out Electronic Communication for Members of the Society for detailed instructions on the lists available and how to get subscribed or re-subscribed.
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