Monthly Study Groups with Reverend Sekou  in BSEC's Library or Meeting Room- all welcome.

Spiritual not Religious:The Search for Ethics and Meaning
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York

The Study Group is an Open Seminar so one can attend at any time. 
Class meets at 6:30pm

Instructor: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Fellow in Residence
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture  

Overview:
This open seminar is designed to create dialogue for those who seek a life of ethics and meaning but do not consider themselves religious. Several questions will be raised accordingly.  How does one describe a just life?  What holds a community together?  How can one be moral without believing in God or a certain organized religion or dogma.   What are the sources of a moral life outside of organized religion?  While the work of Felix Alder and the tradition of the Ethical Culture Societies will serve as a reference point for the study group, this open seminar will use a variety of sources including the arts, current events, popular culture, religious literature, philosophical texts and community conversation. 

The open seminar is praxis in the creative and imaginative life of the soul and mind, the relevancy of religious and spiritual tradition, contemporary realities, and the quest for justice.    The eclectic quality of the readings, references to contemporary realities and the tradition of ethical cultural in our contemporary context will aide in understanding an emergent organic and public ethics of justice for one’s life and society.