The Washington Ethical Society is a vibrant humanistic congregation that affirms the worth of all people.
affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Washington Ethical Society Platform Service - September 10, 2023 - "Opening Sunday: Welcome!" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Washington Ethical Society Platform Service September 3, 2023 - "Laboring Together" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Washington Ethical Society Platform, August 27, 2023 by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
August 20, 2023. "What Has Been" Rev. KC Slack As KC returns from vacation and study leave and we gear up for a new program year, we take a moment to reflect on our first year together, and the many histories that remain relevant to our community
"Our Future Is What We Make It" Sunday, August 13, 2023 Adam Briskin-Limehouse, Karen Schofield-Leca, Levi Leca, Perry Beider, Robin Pfeifer, Teagan Nam, WES Members At WES, we have before us the challenge and the opportunity of greater volunteer leadership. Karen Schofield-Leca will share a bit of WES history of staff- and member-leadership, and highlight ways that we each can help to make WES the vibrant community we desire. Adam Briskin-Limehouse will officiate and Perry Beider will provide themed music. We'll also hear from our college-bound teens Levi Leca, Robin Pfeifer, and Teagan Nam and give them a celebratory send-off. We'll end with a volunteer fair where you can learn more about opportunities and sign up to join teams of interest. And there will be cake!
"Rest and Urgency" Robyn Kravitz Join WES Staff Member Robyn Kravitz as she pulls back the veil on WES' relationship with urgency. She will share her lessons from Rest is Resistance, MotherWorthy, and WES members' own words.
Trans and Divine Feminine: the Art of Tuning in to Who We Really Are Joy Ladin Joy Ladin has long worked at the tangled intersection of literature, Judaism, and transgender identity. She has published ten books of poetry, including her latest collection, Shekhinah Speaks; National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna; and Lambda Literary Award finalists Transmigration and Impersonation, reissued in a revised edition as a free PDF from DoubleBack in April. She is also the author of a memoir of gender transition, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life; and another work of creative non-fiction, Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective. Two new books – Family, a poetry collection, and Once Out of Nature, a collection of essays on the transformation of gender – are forthcoming from Persea in 2024. Her work has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, and a Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Fellowship, among other honors. A nationally recognized speaker on transgender issues, she has been featured on a number of NPR programs, including an “On Being” with Krista Tippett interview that has been rebroadcast several times. Episodes of her online conversation series, “Containing Multitudes,” are available at JewishLive.org/multitudes; her writing is available at joyladin.com.
Showing Up to Change Rev. KC Slack Communities like WES, which are built on relationships, are communities constantly in motion. As we celebrate and induct the 2023-2024 WES Board of Trustees, we will consider how we as individuals and a community are shaped and changed by each person who shows up
Join WES member Mike Kravitz as he shares his thoughts and lessons from an 18+ month-long journey studying modern fatherhood and his own place in the world. Mike will share his observations of the WES community and places where we have room for growth. He also invites those that are interested in diving deeper to join the next fatherhood cohort with Dr. Jason Frishman at https://www.journeymenfoundation.com/.
Changing the World Using Social Media Sunday, June 25, 2023. 10:30am Emily Newman Social media changes the way we communicate, the way we understand the world, and the way we are perceived by others. Although it has been used for bad, we can and should use it for good. Let's spread a message of respect, caring, and action to make a more humane world online and in person. Emily Newman became a member of WES in 2018 and is still a member of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, where she grew up. She has managed social media for several nonprofit organizations and led numerous workshops to help humanist communities get more engaged online.
Taking a Break Sunday, June 18, 2023. 10:30am Rev. KC Slack In advance of a few Sundays away, KC encourages us to find ways to take a break
June 11, 2023. "Pride" Rev. KC Slack by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
June 4, 2023. "Remembering Our Center" Rev. KC Slack by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
What is the link between our various social justice themes this year? How might we expand our commitments to community care?
May 21, 2023. A Platform with Jé Exodus Hooper by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
May 14, 2023. "Founders' Day" Rev. KC Slack by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
May 7, 2023. "Unlocking Creativity" Rev. KC Slack by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Sunday, April 30, 2023. "Spring Festival" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Earth Day Sunday, April 23, 2023. 10:30am Edwin Guevara Edwin Guevara, an Outreach and Education Specialist at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, will talk about conservation and problems of environmental racial inequality. He will discuss the racism and tone deafness that surrounds some efforts to be more environmentally conscious and committed without taking into consideration location, income, and cultural awareness.
April 16, 2023. "Racecraft, Racism, and Global Anti-Blackness" Rev. KC Slack On the construction of racial identity, theories of racism, and anti-Blackness as both something more specific than racism and a global issue
April 9, 2023. "The Struggle is Real" Rev. KC Slack by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Sunday, March 26, 2023. 10:30am "Getting Vulnerable" Rev. KC Slack Discussing the necessities, difficulties, and practice of vulnerability
"Power Up!" Rev. KC Slack Powering Up for WES' future through Stewardship. Sunday, March 19, 2023
March 12, 2023. "Scouting: Its a WES Thing" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Harm Reduction HEAL Ohio https://www.healoh.org/, Minister Blyth Barnow Dignity of People Who Use Drugs Sunday, March 5, 10:30am
February 26, 2023. "Four Letter Word" Rev KC Slack by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
February 19, 2023. Global Connections Update by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
Pay Attention to Love Day WES Members “Love is a Verb” For WES's annual “Pay Attention to Love Day,” Sunday officiants Perry Beider, Judy Myers, Karen Schofield-Leca, and Rajesh Vidyasagar will have a roundtable conversation about love in action. Music by the WES chorus and band
"Body Liberation for All" Rev. KC Slack January 22, 2023
"Making Worth in the Middle" Rev. KC Slack January 15, 2023
December 18, 2022. "Winter Festival" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
"NeuroEthics: The Final Frontier" Ellen Parks PhD/ABD MSc MA MDiv
December 4, 2022 "Doing Too Much" Rev. KC Slack
November 27, 2022 "Make Yourself" KC Slack
November 20, 2022. "Stone Soup Celebration" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
November 20, 2022 "Just a Phase" Rev. KC Slack
November 6, 2022. "Defiant Love" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
October 30, 2022. "Remembrance Sunday" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
October 23, 2022. "Courage" Week 3 by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.
We hope you have the courage to tune into a Sunday Service without a title and speaker listed! We invite you to show up as your true self and be open.
"Sexuality Through a UU Lens" Melanie Davis Phd Sunday, September 25, 2022 Explore the UUA's commitment to sexual justice and the Our Whole Lives program values of Self-Worth, Responsibility, Sexual Health, Justice and Inclusivity.
"We Belong Together" Rev. KC Slack
"The Ins & Outs of Inside" Rev. KC Slack Join us as we continue in September's theme series of Belonging. We request you make reservations in advance, however, we do often have space for walk-ins! Just don't forget to bring your COVID vaccine card or a negative covid test.
Sunday, September 4, 2022 Tell a Better Story Rev. KC Slack Join us as we dive into September's theme of Belonging. We request you make reservations in advance, however, we do often have space for walk-ins! Just don't forget to bring your COVID vaccine card or a negative covid test.
Labor Without Love Rev. Dr. Gregory C. Carrow-Boyd In an audio clip that has now become memefied, mid-20th century scholar James Baldwin, offers “Darling, I have told you several times, I have no dream job, I do not dream of labor.” As we enter the week that precedes the hardwon observance of Labor Day, let us imagine a world without labor. Gather for a service of reflecting and creating a world so bold.
Sunday, August 21, 2022 "Beginning in the Middle" Rev. KC Slack Our experience of linear time means that each time we begin we begin in the middle. As we begin together, we acknowledge where we have been and root ourselves in shared histories of both tradition and place in order to move forward together.
“All Of Who You Are” Rev. KC Slack In Rev. KC's first platform as WES's Senior Leader, they will explore mythmaking, identity development, and wholeness.
Decolonizing Healthcare Sunday, August 7, 2022 John Daken & Rachel Kallum Whitman Seeking assistance for mental and physical distress can be a fraught experience. Healthcare settings feature problematic power relationship shaped by professional roles, variable access to information and money, stigma, impairments, and of course the respective social identities of the individuals involved. Communication breaks down; mistakes are made; people are harmed. Is it possible to deconstruct this system and from its building blocks reconstruct a more just, equitable, and truly healing environment? “Recovering physician” and therapist John Daken will be joined by mental health advocate Rachel Kallum Whitman to explore this challenging topic.
Protecting Trans Kids–It Takes A Village Ellen Kahn, WES Member Ellen Kahn from the Human Rights Campaign will update us about legislative attacks against Transgender youth, what we can do to help keep Trans kids safe, and share compelling stories to move us to action.
Vulnerability: Together in Exploration Maceo Thomas & TIE Group Leaders Leaders from WES's Together In Exploration (TIE) groups will share their experience of vulnerability and growth through regular small group meetings over the 2021-2022 year. New groups are opening up for 2022-2023.
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