An older article, but one worth revisiting. Emotions: A Humanist Perspective – by Jone Johnson Lewis (substack.com)
Dignity Quotes
The idea of dignity is crucial to ethics and to humanism. Here are some quotes I’ve collected on dignity: Quotes …
Vision for a Community of the Head, Heart, and Hands
My attempt to describe a vision for an Ethical Society. With a few minor changes, it could apply to other groups in the broader “head, heart, and hands” humanism and progressive religion.
Beloved Community
When I’m despairing of how our groups or wider culture fail to live up to our own values, I find it worthwhile to get back to: what is our vision for how we DO want to live?
Circles of Humanity
Being human together: a guide for community-building circles, especially in humanistic and progressive religious communities. Includes 20 scripts/guides you can …
Women of Ethical Culture
Who were some of the women who contributed to the Ethical Culture / Ethical Humanist movement through its history? You might know the name Anna Garlin Spencer — but there are more!
10 Commandments, Post Religion
I had some fun with a chatbot using Artificial Intelligence to come up with some post-religion versions of a Ten …
A Robot’s Fairy Tale
I asked a chatbot to write two stories. First prompt was to write a fairy story about a boy in …
Lessons Learned
What I learned from Reuben Snake and Vickie Downey and their presentation, long ago now, on Native American Spirituality. Lessons …
What’s faith got to do with humanism?
Is faith an appropriate concept for those of us who call ourselves humanists? It certainly is for me: a faith …
White Supremacy Culture
I wrote this back in February, 2023, when the topic came up again in organizational life. What is white supremacy …
Humanism Quotes
Humanism as a philosophy and life stance is grounded in the idea that people are capable of making ethical decisions, …
Reverence for Life Quotes
Albert Schweitzer was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his Reverence for Life philosophy. What was that philosophy? What did …
What’s an Ethical Society For?
This is a piece that I’ve revised and rewritten many times over years. It’s specifically about my vision of what …
Forgiveness: An Ethical Approach to Reconciliation
This piece evolved over time. Felix Adler, founder of Ethical Culture, addressed the topic early. Don Montagna, then Leader of …
Do We Live in a White Supremacy Culture?
Are Ethical Societies, UU churches, and humanist groups immune, or do they participate in the wider culture? I wrote this …
Humanity Quotes
Here you’ll find quotations about humanity as a collective whole, about the quality of humanity in how we act, and …
Community Matters
In 2023 I initiated this collection (still growing) on my writings on sustaining community, especially in the context of humanism, Unitarian Universalism, and Ethical Culture.
Heart Humanism
I’ve moved some older articles from other places on the web to the Heart Humanism site. Archive – Heart Humanism …