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	<description>A Perspective on Ethical Humanism by Jone Johnson Lewis</description>
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		<title>Reading from William Salter: The Higher Life of Humanity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From William Salter, an early Ethical Culture leader; adapted by Jone Johnson Lewis:
&#8220;The higher life of humanity is made of our higher impulses, our higher thoughts, our higher strivings. We all must live and we must work (or some one must work) for us to have the means of living. But this physical life is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. Eustace Haydon on Humanist Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. Eustace Haydon, a signer of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto, Dean of the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Chicago, and for some years a Leader in the Ethical Culture Movement (AEU) had this to say on the spirituality of humanism:
&#8220;The Humanist rarely loses the feeling of at-homeness in the universe. The Humanist is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compassion without reason is ineffective; reason without compassion is destructive.
&#8220;Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he&#8217;s been given. But up to now he hasn&#8217;t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life&#8217;s become extinct, the climate&#8217;s ruined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions That Work</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2012/01/new-years-resolutions-that-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you make resolutions you&#8217;ll actually keep?
Making general resolutions to change (&#8221;I&#8217;ll lose weight&#8221; / &#8220;I&#8217;ll stop smoking&#8221; / &#8220;I&#8217;ll do something about my job&#8221;) rarely results in actually achieving what you resolve.
Those general statements are good starts, though.
Think smart.  That&#8217;s S &#8211; M &#8211; A &#8211; R &#8211; T &#8212; a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time to Mourn</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2011/05/a-time-to-mourn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot fully celebrate anyone&#8217;s death.  It would make me less than I want to be.  It was Osama bin Laden&#8217;s celebration of death of others in the service of his ends that led him to inspire so much pain and suffering.  I don&#8217;t want to be like that, even in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Did Felix Really Say?</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2011/02/what-did-felix-really-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, someone asked me about the &#8220;correct&#8221; version of the quote from Felix Adler about &#8220;eliciting the best&#8221; or &#8220;bringing out the best.&#8221;  Here is an edited version of my response, based on quick research:
He said it several different ways.  Here are two I can document as actually being from him:
The title of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose and Aims</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2010/09/purpose-and-aims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this on the way to looking for something else: a paragraph from an early constitution of the &#8220;Ethical Union&#8221; of the first Ethical Societies in the United States, referred to in a book published in 1896 as being from &#8220;a few years ago.&#8221;
The general aim of the Ethical Movement as represented by this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Community</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2010/07/state-of-the-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the membership meeting in June, 2010, I asked members to remember two incidents this past year that stood out for them in the life of our Ethical Society -- one that they enjoyed, and one that they didn't enjoy so much.]]></description>
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