Week of 6/1/2020
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Some deaths are especially personal. Recently the Ethical Movement lost one of its own longtime members, Bob Gordon, who succumbed to cancer on... Read More →
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Bart’s BlogWeek of 5/25/2020
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After 4 or 5 hours of struggle I abandoned my Memorial Day blog post. In the end the topic was too big and the space too small for my capacities.... Read More →
Week of 5/18/2020
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Sunday’s Zoom crash got me thinking quite a lot about vulnerability and frustration. I always look forward to Sunday platform meetings and... Read More →
Week of 5/11/2020
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Thank you to all who have contributed to the American Ethical Union’s #GivingTuesdayNow campaign! We raised almost $4600 and will be sending... Read More →
Week of 5/4/2020
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One of the pleasures of being the executive director for the American Ethical Union is that I can visit the member Societies on a pretty regular... Read More →
Week of 4/27/2020
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the American Ethical Union’s participation with GivingTuesdayNow. In my efforts to understand how it’s supposed to... Read More →
Week of 4/20/2020
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My wife’s grandmother was fond of saying “you get used to hanging, too.” Perhaps that is what is happening for me. I can’t say that I am in... Read More →
Week of 4/13/2020
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Highlights for last week include the use by a number of Ethical Societies of the Connections calendar. There were twenty public online events... Read More →
Week of 4/6/2020
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The American Ethical Union had a big week last week and we are looking forward to another one this week. Last week we focused quite a bit on... Read More →
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Some deaths are personal, like the loss of longtime member Bob Gordon, who succumbed to cancer on May 2 of this year...
Some deaths come to us as statistics, like the at least 103,700 deaths due to the coronavirus in the US...
Some deaths bring real focus to just how fragile human beings are and illuminate the dangers that may await us. George Floyd’s death at the hands of police and captured on video, showed just how easy it is to end someone’s life.
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