Ethics Is Our Religion
Parenting Beyond Belief Workshop
Over nine million parents in the U.S. are raising children without theistic religion. The PARENTING BEYOND BELIEF WORKSHOP, a dynamic half-day seminar with author and educator Dale McGowan, offers encouragement and solutions for humanist parenting in a religious world.
A practical workshop on parenting without traditional religion
Saturday, October 2, 2010
With Dale McGowan
Author of Raising Freethinkers and Parenting Beyond Belief
Welcome!
NoVES welcomes visitors to our diverse community. People in families of all types, singles, young and old, many colors, many religious and ethnic backgrounds, from all around Northern Virginia and from many other places in the greater Washington D.C. area -- all have made NoVES their humanistic religious home.
We invite you to check us out on a Sunday morning and to join us in other activities. You just might find -- as so many others of us have -- the sort of caring, thoughtful community you didn't even know was out there -- just waiting for you to become a part of it.
Sunday Meetings
Platform Meetings and Sunday School:
11:00 a.m. Sundays,
in Vienna, Virginia
Our platform meetings typically feature a thought-provoking talk on a topic of ethical interest, along with responses, music, a story for children of all ages, and more. We meet the Sunday after Labor Day in September through mid-June (see calendar).
President's Column
Submitted by Mary Ellen Stanton on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 5:47pm.WE’RE OFF!
by Mary Ellen Stanton
The Northern Virginia Ethical Society is beginning its twenty-seventh year! Just as Dorothy took her friends, the Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man, with her, I feel that I am walking down the yellow brick road with my NoVES friends.
ETHICAL ETTY Advice for the Ethically Minded – Put ‘em up, put ‘em up! Which of you first
Submitted by Ethical Etty on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 5:41pm.Dear Etty,
Are people just aching to argue? Seems like the slightest comment sets people off. The other day, I kidded with someone about her mumbling when she chaired the Platform. She almost took my head off.
Kidder
State of the Society 2010: What We Value, Long For
Submitted by Jone Johnson Lewis on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 10:12am.As part of the membership meeting in June, 2010, I asked members to remember two incidents this past year that stood out for them in the life of our Ethical Society -- one that they enjoyed, and one that they didn't enjoy so much. I also asked that they try to boil down to one word the quality of life that they were wanting -- a quality of life they found in the moment they enjoyed, a quality of life that they found wanting in the moment that they didn't enjoy. Out of those words, I created this word cloud:
