Great Books: Great Conversations I
Wednesday, September 19
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Room 507
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer. List for the season
The Joy of Personal Writing – Fall Semester
Thursday, September 20
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Sunday Meeting, September 23
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 408
No program.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rooms 507 & 508
Unity in Diversity: Exploring Ethics Through the Cultures of the World
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Auditorium
"Walking the Walk: Becoming an Agent of Change and A
Catalyst for Good"
Bart Worden, Leader, Ethical Culture Society of Westchester
Dr. Judith D. Wallach Presides
The Joy of Personal Writing – Fall Semester
Monday, September 24 (started Sept. 17)
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Drawing Class
Tuesday, September 25
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Room 507
Taking Stock of Human Rights
Tuesday, September 25
6.30 – 8.00 PM
Auditorium
Moderator:
- Mary Robinson, Founder and President,
Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
Panelists:
- Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University
- Larry Cox, Executive Director of Amnesty USA
- Francis Omaswa, Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and Former Minister of Health, Uganda
- Michael Posner, President of Human Rights First
- Len Rubenstein, President of Physicians for Human Rights
Please join us for the 5th anniversary celebration of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. We are using this anniversary event, co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture, to highlight a far more important one – the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2008. This provides a unique moment to raise global awareness about what can and must be done to realize internationally agreed human rights standards.
A conversation by the panelists will be followed by Q&A and an exchange of ideas on where we are as a human rights movement today, and how we can galvanize political will and public interest on the eve of the countdown to the 60th Anniversary.
All are welcome. Please RSVP to celeste.fichter@eginitiative.org, or by calling 212-895-8080. No charge. Donation at the door.
Ethical Culture Today?
Wednesday, September 26
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Room 508
Informal discussion group to explore issues of ethical behavior in our lives. Paul Berman and Carol Rost preside. All are welcome. Call Paul at 561-512-7116 for more information.
Ethics and the Theater presents
Wednesday evening, September 26
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Room 507
Edward Albee’s, The Death of Bessie Smith. Albee is a three time Pulitzer Prize Winner and won a Tony award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, as well as a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
In this riveting play, the realities of Southern segregation laws in the 1930’s are brought vividly to life with both humor and pathos.
Admission: $5. Barry Snider will direct and lead a lively discussion of the ethical issues the play evokes. Be sure to come and let your ideas be heard.
The Joy of Personal Writing – Fall Semester
Thursday, September 27 (started Sept 20)
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Ethics on the Air - (WBAI-99.5 FM)
Friday, September 28
11:00 - 11:55 AM
The topic is: “Remembering 9/11: Uses and Abuses.” Our guest will be Alan J. Gerson, New York City Council Member from District 1 and Chair of the Council’s Lower Manhattan Development Committee. As the Council Member representing the area of Ground Zero, he is an excellent position to discuss the ethical issues arising in our commemorations of 9/11. Mr. Gerson will be interviewed by Andra Miller, President of the New York Society and Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross, a Trustee of the Society. For more
AEU Growth and Development Workshop
Saturday, September 29
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Auditorium
A workshop for member Societies of the AEU, Michael Durall, author of the Alban Institute’s best selling book, Creating Congregations of Generous People, will share his expertise in helping congregations develop tailor-made plans for the future.
Asking members for money is very different from creating congregations of generous people. Annual pledge drives, Durall asserts, inadvertently perpetuate low- and same-level giving. He frames the stewardship task not as “asking for money,” but as bringing the congregation into authentic community from which generosity is a natural outcome.
This is not a talk about money, but rather a program on how to create Societies that will stand the test of time. This seminar will offer a new look at what membership means, ways to increase membership, reasons why Societies should develop generous people and pass this legacy on to their children and grandchildren, elements of long-range planning, and ways to increasing service and outreach to the wider community.
The AEU encourages Societies to send a team of at least five people. It has budgeted workshops like this to recover most costs from those participating, rather than from Society apportionments. We request that each individual or Society contribute $50 per participant, with lunch and a copy of Durall’s book included. To register, call the AEU office at 212-873-6500 or mail the registration form.
