Bett Padgett uses music to express her thoughts about today’s social, political, and environmental climate.  Her thoughtful and carefully crafted songs shine through with a vision of a world we want to live in.  A multi-instrumentalist, she will accompany herself using innovative guitar techniques and banjo in styles that cross the borders of Celtic, Old-time, […]

On November 24th, EHST will hold its annual “Stone Soup” celebration.  We will tell the history of Stone Soup, and then we will each be given an opportunity to express what we can be thankful for in our lives.   (Please note that being "thankful" does not require theism; nontheists can be thankful too!) We will make […]

EHST member, Jay Niver, reviews recent developments in the contentious debate over Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), including the Canadian model and the failed effort to bring an NC bill to the floor this past spring. Jay and his sister Gretchen produced an award-winning documentary film about the planned death of their father in 1998.  […]

EHST Friend Hugh Giblin will provide his own poetry, as well as the writings of others, as we seek to enjoy poetry as an expression of our common humanity and of our own roots in Humanism.  Guest poets are Michael Hansen, also a writer, and Pam Baggett, a well known local poet.  

Margaret Henderson, UNC School of Government, will speak to us about Human Trafficking in North Carolina.   This presentation will convey basic information about sex and labor trafficking:  What it is and isn't, who it involves, the forms it takes, and helping us learn more about what we can do to prevent, identify, or respond […]