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	<description>A Perspective on Ethical Humanism by Jone Johnson Lewis</description>
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		<title>Purpose and Aims</title>
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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>A Holiday They Can Believe In?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are mentioned in this article in the Post:

Atheists gather for a holiday they can believe in: Independence Day

Glad to get a mention. Our Ethical Society is definitely an atheist-friendly group with many atheists, but we&#8217;re not exclusively an atheist group. We&#8217;re nontheist in that belief in deities is not required or even important to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Community</title>
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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>Remembering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Memorial Day approaches, I remember that the day was initially created to honor the dead on both sides of a major conflict &#8211; the American Civil War &#8211; and in that remembering, to re-unite the nation that had nearly split in two.  It was not to glorify war, or to justify the rightness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Is Comin&#8217;</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>Turning of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[adapted from Kenneth L. Patton, 1951, revised by Jone Lewis
The days of the year have stiffened in ice, and darkness has grown upon the land.
The season of cold and early dusk is upon us.
The sun has retreated down the sky, the living green has forsaken the earth, and the leaves have fallen.
The flowers no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Carry the Torch of Goodwill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jone Johnson Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[adapted from Charles Dickens by Jone Lewis
We celebrate the winter holidays once again. Let us open our hearts, let the spirit within us walk abroad among our human neighbors and travel far and wide.
Let this season be a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. May we keep our humor to the last.
Let us not be haunted [...]]]></description>
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