This program will be shared by representatives from all twenty-five national Ethical Societies and will feature music from the Washington Ethical Society Chorus, musicians Jaque DuPree and Barry Kornhauser, with presiders Vandra Thorburn, Elaine Durbach and Lyn Cox. As we face this historical moment, when cult thinking and fake news have fueled an attempted insurrection, […]

EHST will hold a discussion regarding the "All Society AEU Program" on Sunday (1/31).  Those who attended that session can help inform those who did not attend.  The question to be discussed is "How Can Freethinkers Help Restore Democracy?"  So we want to discuss this and hear from all participating in our meeting.   This […]

Our society is currently plagued by many wacky theories. In the dictionary, there are multiple definitions of the word theory, most having not much to do with science. For scientists, a theory is something special, pure and rigorous, right? Well, maybe. Consider Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar whose published research led us on a direct […]

EHST will show two short videos, and then discuss each. The first video is a short Tonight Show interview from last June with Jane Elliot.  She is the teacher who, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King, ran what became a famous experiment on discrimination in her third-grade class, involving separating children with blue eyes […]

UNC Professor Deen Freelon will discuss the interaction between social media and disinformation.  He will speak briefly about his research, and then he will engage the meeting participants to share their perceptions of and experiences with mis/disinformation.  He is very interested in how our own perceptions mesh with his research.  Prof. Freelon was recently interviewed […]