In the era of the Third Great Awakening when the Free Religious Association was formed around such moral causes as the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage, a 27-year-old reformed Rabbi, Felix Adler, spoke out: “There is a great and crying evil in modern society… It is that narrowness of vision which shuts out the […]

Linda Patterson, EHST member and author, will speak about her new book "Am I Doing This Right."  Linda Patterson’s book is a soul searching, sincere, and heartfelt story of a very painful time in her life, when her husband, John, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, died, and then she faced a new phase of her […]

In the light of the recent programs about the future of the American Ethical Union, EHST will discuss our own future.  The future of our humanist congregation will depend on what our members and friends want, and the board of the society wants to have a discussion about this.  In addition to this, we are […]

Rick Glazier, Director of the NC Justice Center, will speak to us about the center, and its work.  Here is a brief statement from their website:  "As a leading progressive research and advocacy organization, our mission is to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the […]

Our meeting will feature a short Ted Talk by Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller, an Associate Professor in the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Following is a brief biography from the TED Foundation: “Dr. Miller studies and writes about race, democracy […]