Sunday Meeting, September 21
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall, 4th floor
Singing Practice - Led by Patricia Bruder Debrovner and Jerry Ranck.
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 408
Poetry Readings - spend a peaceful hour reading and listening to the poems we especially like. Please bring your own favorites to read, or just come and listen. Cheryl Gross presides.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rooms 507 & 508
We the Kids… The World is in Our Hands! Everyday Leaders Making a Difference in the World
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Auditorium
"Reason and Reverence: A New Religious Humanism"
Rev. Dr. William R. Murry
Eric Volpe presides
Viewing humanism under the larger umbrella of religious naturalism adds greater depth to humanism’s understanding of human nature, of the path to truth, of spirituality, and of ethics, and at the same time it answers some of the criticisms that have been directed at humanism over the years. This talk will explore a new humanism grounded in the perspective of religious naturalism, and will deal with such questions as: What do we mean by sin and evil in a humanist framework? What, if any, is the role of the emotions in the search for truth? What does a naturalistic spirituality look like? And, can we be moral without God?
The Rev. Dr. William R. Murry is immediate past President of the Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago, a Unitarian Universalist seminary affiliated with the University of Chicago; minister emeritus of the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, MD; and also the author of two books: A Faith for All Seasons: Liberal Religion and the Crises of Life, and Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century.
