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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: 

The United States In The Post 9/11 World: An Ethical Culture Perspective

In its emotional impact, September 11, 2000 may have been the most horrifying single day in American history.   A year later the feelings of injury are still with us. The terrorist attack, like an assault on our personal bodily integrity, has made us feel vulnerable as Americans as we have never felt before.
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Onward Christian Soldiers: War, Religion and Ashcroft’s Passion

I attended the 50th anniversary Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union this past summer, which was held near the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. After lunch one afternoon, I was approached by an individual who is very prominent in American and international humanist circles.  He wanted to share with me some disturbing thoughts that were on his mind.  The gist of his concern was that with Attorney General, John Ashcroft, again unleashing the FBI to spy on domestic groups, it was very possible that humanist organizations, including the Ethical Culture movement, could be objects of FBI infiltration and surveillance.
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A Civilization Should Be Judged

A civilization should be judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable members. Will the world care for its children?

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The Passionate Humanism of Paul Wellstone

As Ethical Culturists we are idealists. We look at the way the world is and imagine how is might be; indeed, how it ought to be. When we apply this basic moral perspective to the state of American politics we can be easily led to feelings of despair. The much-vaunted pride we feel in America as the world’s bastion of democracy is built on nostalgia and false presumptions.

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A Marginalized Minority: The Fate of Humanists, Agnostics and Atheists in a Time of God

An article in yesterday’s Record could not escape my notice. Entitled “Graham, Nixon Deride Jews on Tape” the brief piece describes a conversation at the Oval Office in 1972 between president Nixon, and Billy Graham, considered by many America’s leading clergyman, and an icon of religious and moral probity. Lamenting the alleged stranglehold that Jews have on the media, Graham states:

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687 Larch Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666
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