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EHST Annual Meeting of Members
EHST will hold its annual meeting of members. This is a business meeting where the members will (re-)elect board members, and pass a budget for 2017. We will also seek membership feedback on our activities for 2016 and suggestions for 2017. Visitors are welcome to attend, but they will not be able to vote. Members […]
Humanism Dialog with Community Midrasha Class
The Community Midrasha Class will join with EHST to learn more about Ethical Humanism, and how the two groups are similar and different. The class is a joint educational project of Judea Reform Synagogue (Reform Judaism), Beth El Synagogue (Conservative Judaism) and the Chapel Hill Kehillah (Reconstructionist Judaism) for students who are post Bar & Bat Mitzvah: grades […]
Hip Hop Humanism and the Eradication of Racism
EHST member Kwame Teague will speak to us via a previously recorded audio talk. Mr. Teague is incarcerated at a North Carolina prison facility. He has been advocating for humanism to be recognized in prisons in the same way as faith based systems, as well as working to combat racism using humanist principles. His talk […]
Gene Nichol on the Future of North Carolina
UNC Professor of Law Gene Nichol will speak on the future of North Carolina from his perspective as a progressive as well as a legal scholar. Gene Nichol is Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor of law at the University of North Carolina. Nichol has been a monthly op-ed writer for the Raleigh News & Observer for fifteen […]
Book Group Discussion of “Black Man in a White Coat”
The EHST book group (open to the public) will discuss the book Black Man in a White Coat by Dr. Damon Tweedy. Dr. Tweedy is a psychiatrist at Duke Medical Center, and received his medical training there. A New York Times Bestseller • one of Time Magazine's Top Ten Nonfiction Books of the Year • a […]