May 19th is our annual Founders Day celebration.  This year our program will be:  Exploring Ethical Decision Making. Every day we come across problems, large and small, that require some thought and comparisons to reach the ‘right’ decision.  Often we have limited information but still need to take action.  Today’s program will be a combination […]

Our speaker will be Martha Gallahue, from the American Ethical Union. Martha Gallahue will speak of her work in interfaith cooperation with the URI (United Religions Initiative).  In the face of comprehensive interdependence there is an urgent need in the world, using science) to grasp the coherence of the universe and why humans may be […]

Our speaker today will be Vernetta Alston, a Durham City Council member and LGBTQ activist. An article in the News and Observer on February 7, 2019, describes events at Immaculata Catholic School in Durham. Vernetta Alston, a Durham City Council member and an alumna of Immaculata Catholic School in Durham, was invited to speak at […]

We are very fortunate to be able to have as our guest speaker, Dr. Damon Tweedy, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, and author of  Black Man in a White Coat:  A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine (a New York Times bestseller and one of Time Magazine's Top […]

Christopher Laws will be discussing the pre-war views that North Carolinians (especially in the Piedmont) held about secession and the Confederacy in early 1861; the rhetoric that was used in the monument dedication ceremonies; who gave the speeches and why that is important; and (time permitting) a brief glimpse into Non-Confederate Civil War commemoration and […]