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	<description>A Perspective on Ethical Humanism by Jone Johnson Lewis</description>
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		<title>Reason</title>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Change Is Comin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2010/03/change-is-comin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the other Ethical Societies have, somewhere on their building and often near or above the area where the platform speaker stands, some version of the Felix Adler quote, &#8220;The place where people meet to seek the highest is holy ground.&#8221;  (Felix&#8217;s original words actually were about &#8220;men&#8221; but he did seem to mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musing About Marriage Equality</title>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2010/01/musing-about-marriage-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in a state where &#8220;race&#8221; is still a box to fill in on marriage licenses, I&#8217;m often reminded how parallel today&#8217;s marriage equality issues are, legally speaking.  Some of the same arguments are even used (see &#8220;Why the Ugly Rhetoric Against Gay Marriage Is Familiar to This Historian of Miscegenation&#8220;).  How simple [...]]]></description>
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