2007-2008 SUNDAY MORNING PROGRAMS
June 10, 2007 Science, Politics, and the Dangers of Wireless Radiation
George Carlo, epidemiologist, lawyer, and chairman of the Science and Public Policy Institute
June 17, 2007 Videophilia: Effects on Childhood Development and Conservation
Oliver Pergams, Society member and University of Illinois conservation biologist
June 24, 2007 Youth For Ethical Societies—Who We Are
A group of teenagers from the St. Louis Society for Ethical Culture, assisted and moderated by our own YES members in Chicago
July 1, 2007 A Living Report from the AEU Assembly
Delegates Scott and Sue Walton, Tom and Jo-Ann Hoeppner, and Paul Ozarowski described highlights of this annual meeting of the American Ethical Union
July 8, 2007 Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Fiction Circle Discussion
July 15, 2007 Whose Life Is It Anyway? Ethics in the Right to Die Movement
Jerry Dincin, Society member
July 22, 2007 John Lennon: Artist, Pacifist, Humanist
Mike Rush, Society member
July 29, 2007 The Shroud of Turin: Divine Relic or Pious Fraud?
John Ungashick, Society member
August 5, 2007 Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, and Women in the New Millennium
Ethical Humanities non-fiction book discussion
August 12, 2007 A Personal Look at Hunting
Matt Cole, Society member
August 19, 2007 Mark Twain: An American Writer and Freethinker
Yolanda Adler, Susan Burck, and Joe Burck, Society members
August 26, 2007 Creative Writers Group
Led by Milt Zerkin, presented its annual summer-ending showcase program
September 9, 2007 Atheism Comes out of the Closet and onto the Best-Sellers List
Eric Zorn, popular Chicago Tribune columnist
September 16, 2007 Nuclear Power: No Help in a Global Warming World
David Craft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service
September 23, 2007 Spirituality, Mission, and Modernism in the Art of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Gloria Groom, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago
September 30, 2007 Home From War: Helping Vets With Post-Combat Stress
Ray Parrish, counselor for the national Vietnam Veterans Against the War
October 7, 2007 Felix Adler and the Concept of Human Worth in Ethical Culture
Bob Berson, Leader of the Ethical Society of Northern Westchester (NY)
October 14, 2007 Alcohol, Addiction, and Art: Artists in Recovery
Bill Current, founder of the Refuge Center for Artists in Recovery
October 21, 2007 Understanding the Recent Financial Market Meltdown
Anil Kashyap, Society member and Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago
October 28, 2007 Ethical Humanism as a Uniquely American Experience
Jennifer Scates, new president of the American Ethical Union
November 4, 2007 Unicorns and Dragons: Renaissance Songs and Stories
Daniel Marcotte, popular minstrel singer known as Bardsong
November 11, 2007 Drugs and the American Criminal [In]-Justice System
Calvin Morris, Executive Director of the Community Renewal Society
November 18, 2007 Home Energy Efficiency: Saving Money and the Environment
Jim Conlon, conservation biologist and owner of Elysian Energy consultants
November 25, 2007 Early Childhood Learning: The Reggio Emilia Approach
Karen Haigh, Executive Director of the Family Development Center at Governors State University
December 2, 2007 This Is Hell! How Not to Make Money in Radio
Chuck Mertz, WNUR talk show host
December 9, 2007 Guantanamo: America’s Gulag
Candace Gorman, civil rights attorney
December 16, 2007 Our Annual Winter Festival
January 6, 2008 Blue Birds Over the White Cliffs of Dover? The Promises of WWII
David Bumbaugh, Professor of Ministry at Meadville Lombard Theological School
January 13, 2008 The Mess In Iraq: Is the Mainstream Media to Blame?
Joel Bleifuss, editor and publisher of In These Times
January 20, 2008 The Nature of Consciousness
Philip Hockberger, professor of physiology at Northwestern University Institute of Neuroscience
January 27, 2008 Religion, Violence, and God
Jim Kenney, executive director of Common Ground
February 3, 2008 The Spirit in Most of Us: Religion as Culture
Haki Madhubuti, renowned poet, publisher, and professor of English at Chicago State University
February 10, 2008 The Birth of the Ethical Movement: Felix Adler’s Call to Action
Society members Susan and Joe Burck, Vicki Elberfeld, and Ken Novak
February 17, 2008 Chicago’s Top Photojournalist
Art Shay, photographer
February 24, 2008 Acoustic Folk Music for Earth and Humanity
The Giving Tree Band
March 2, 2008 Women in the Immigrant Family: Earning Our Place in America
Naisy Dolar, community activist and former Chicago aldermanic candidate
March 9, 2008 The Economics of Media Bias and Slant
Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago economist
March 16, 2008 Dave Dinaso’s Traveling World of Reptiles
Presented by Chris Boerma
March 23, 2008 My Life at StreetWise
Greg Pritchett, quality assurance and distribution manager for the remarkable StreetWise magazine
March 30, 2008 Losing theWar on Cancer: How to Reduce Our Own Risks
Samuel Epstein, Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois
April 6, 2008 Looking at Looking: Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Chris Plummer, Director
April 13, 2008 Our Annual Spring Festival
April 20, 2008 The Care and Feeding of Urban Nature
Jane & John Balaban, Master Stewards for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County
April 27, 2008 Palestine/Israel: A Single State Whose Time Has Come?
Ali Abunimah, noted U.S.-born journalist and author
May 4, 2008 A Lobbyist for Non-Theists Finds Her Place in Washington
Lori Lipman Brown, a lawyer, former Nevada state senator, and director of the Secular Coalition for America
May 11, 2008 Where are Labor Unions Headed?
Gilbert Feldman, noted Chicago labor attorney
May 18, 2008 Membership Recognition and Sunday School Graduation
June 1, 2008 Annual Meeting
