The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture (BSEC) seeks a part time experienced, progressive educator to head up their Children’s Sunday Assembly (CSA). Two moral precepts “Deed before Creed” and “Bringing out the best in others to bring out the best in ourselves” are at the heart of our community and our Sunday school program. The CSA is a multi-age…
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CODEPINK Wins Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture 2013 Peace Site Award for Anti-Drone Campaign Talk and presentation On Sunday, May 12 at 11am, the women-founded peace group CODEPINK received the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture’s Peace Site Award for its anti-drone campaign. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations,…
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With Jone Johnson Lewis: James Baldwin wrote: “For nothing is fixed,/ forever and forever, / it is not fixed;/ the earth is always shifting, / the light is always changing, / the sea does not cease to grind down the rock.” And Charles Darwin is often quoted as writing, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor…
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The Ten Commandments are a set of biblical laws relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. In Buddhism, the Eight-Fold Path is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments. Although Ethical Culturists will never have something carved in stone, this platform will explore…
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