The Ethical Enrichment Committee presents three upcoming reading and discussion groups.  Each group has different requirements.  If you you'd like more information, call the contact for the group in which you are interested. More to follow.

Each session will start and end with a poem and include a discussion of a novel from the syllabus provided to participants. 

• Free NYSEC members; $5 per session for non-members
• Please register with Yalitza Garcia in the Leaders' Office, 212-874-5210 x118 or email ygarcia@nysec.org.

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What Does Globalization and A Multicultural World Require of Humanity? – A Dialogue on the vision of “The Coming Interspiritual Age”

Wednesdays, TWO SESSIONS

3/13 and 3/20

6:30 – 8:00 pm

Moderator: Dr. Kurt Johnson

In a new book, now riding in Amazon's “Top 10 in Spirituality: New and Popular,”The Coming Interspiritual Age (Namaste Publishers), co-author and long-time Ethical Culture member, comparative religionist and evolutionary biologist, Dr. Kurt Johnson discusses the implications of a globalizing and multiculturalized world. Dr. Johnson predicts that religions will meet "somewhere in the middle" based on their shared ethical and behavioral ideals, just as Felix Adler envisioned when he founded Ethical Culture, whose motto of "Deed Over Creed" is now embraced by most of the world's movements for transformative change. 

Here are questions for both Humanists and non-Humanists: First, can Humanism join the rest of the world's "religious communities" in taking a “universal path” or has it become parochially secular? Secondly, 

what do the world's "religious and spiritual communities" have to teach, and also learn, from their own challenge to foster a universal path from their followers?  Can we achieve Adler's vision of an "Ethical Manifold?" verbalized by the founders of "Interspirituality" as "Discovering a Universal Understanding of the World's Religions"?   

Free

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