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Everyone is welcome to attend our Sunday morning platform meetings. From the first Sunday after Labor Day through mid-June, they are held at 11 AM. During the summer, our program is more varied, but we usually start at 10:30 AM. Our thought provoking platform addresses cover a wide range of subjects relating to ethics in modern life.

Our speakers offer thoughts related to the philosophy of humanism or share their experiences and commitments in the struggle to foster peace, justice, economic fairness and racial and religious harmony.

Our leader speaks on the first Sunday of each month occasionally on the differences between Ethical Culture and other religous movements. Sometimes our meetings take the form of interviews or group discussions. Three times a year, special celebrations are held in conjunction with the children of the Sunday School. Babysitting is available for infants and toddlers too young to sample our Sunday School.

Music, small discussions, coffee and socializing are also important elements of our Sunday morning experience.

If you would like to sample our programs before visiting (or you are too far to visit) you may also choose from a large selection of audio tapes available for a nominal fee. Call (201) 836-5187 for more information or send us an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County welcomes people of all races, ethnic origins, religious backgrounds, and sexual orientations. The Society has a barrier free front entrance.

Below are some of our Platform Addresses:

Ethical Dilemmas of Globalization

We are in the midst of an unprecedented transformation, even larger than the Industrial Revolution. Because of technological changes our world is becoming more and more interconnected.

The dynamic force of globalization will continue to change our perceptions, as it reshapes our lives, the way we make a living and the way we relate. The changes are economic, technological, cultural and political. Incidentally, Karl Marx, in the Communist Manifesto predicted that the relentless search for markets will alter older social structures. As he put it "all that is solid will melt". Some say it is a runaway world. To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, commenting on the Industrial Revolution in his day, “things are in the saddle and ride mankind".

We Are the Ones: Building Ethical Community

OPENING POEM

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older

The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated

Of dead and living. Not the intense moment

Isolated, with no before and after,

But a lifetime burning in every moment

from “Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot

Minister In Chief: George W Bush

By Dr. Joseph Chuman

The Evangelization of America

In 1962, when organized prayer was banned from the public schools, hordes of clergymen and politicians cursed out the Supreme Court for what has proven to be one of its most controversial decisions.

What I Learned About Women At The United Nations

By Phyllis Ehrenfeld

The greatest weapon in the war against poverty is the empowerment of women and the education of girls, said United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "When it comes to solving the problems of this world, I believe in girl power."

Mystical Unity and Social Change

By Lawrence Bush

(This article is adapted from a piece that originally appeared in the Fall, 2003 issue of The Reconstructionist. Lawrence Bush edits Jewish Currents magazine (www.jewishcurrents.org), an independent bimonthly, and is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction.)

Does God exist outside the human mind? Much of modern theology, in an historic compromise with humanism, tends to limit its sightings of God to the realm of “godly” human deeds, relationships and emotions. A humanistic theology like this soothes the agnostic who lurks in the minds of most modern people and permits them to observe holiday and worship rituals, and to exalt their ethical and moral commitments, without having to make a real “leap of faith.”

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The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County

Ethical Dilemmas of Globalization

We Are the Ones: Building Ethical Community

Minister In Chief: George W Bush

By Dr. Joseph Chuman

What I Learned About Women At The United Nations

By Phyllis Ehrenfeld

Mystical Unity and Social Change

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