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2/4/25 @7:30 pm TOWARD A MORE DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Schweitzer Room, also on Zoom; send an email to HumanistGroup@first-unitarian-pgh.org for the link. Speaker: Robert Cavalier Description: Just as changes in the earth’s climate affect changes in our weather, changes in our politics can affect the outcomes of elections and policy decisions. Today, the disturbing growth of manipulated and … Continue reading HUMANIST GROUP FEBRUARY MEETING
12/03/24 @7:30 pm Nick Izzo will be leading this month’s discussion. Over the years, Nick has heard many people question the ethics of putting patients in clinical trials on a placebo that has no hope of benefiting them. During his career, Nick has closely followed and has been involved in several clinical trials. Through a … Continue reading Humanist Group December meeting
This meeting is co-sponsored by the Racial Justice Task Force. Church Member and retired CMU Professor of Information Systems Randy Weinberg will speak to us on “The Legacy of Redlining”. In this lecture, based on his CMU Osher course on this topic, he investigates the original intent and subsequent consequences of the government sponsored neighborhood … Continue reading November Humanist Group meeting: The legacy of Redlining
Join us in person or on Zoom as we discuss three African-Americans and one African whose views were clearly humanistic, even if they didn’t apply the term to themselves. These are the writer James Baldwin, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the civil rights advocate Bayard Rustin, and the Nigerian educator Tai Solarin. This event will be … Continue reading Four Black Humanists
The Humanist Group will meet 01/02/2024 7:30 PM Both the current First Principle and the proposed Article II value of Equity call for UU’s to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This can be hard when we judge a person as responsible for behaviors that have negative impacts on other people, or … Continue reading What If Free Will Is An Illusion?
Speaker: Ron Millar, Political Coordinator with the American Humanist AssociationTitle: Invisible No Longer, Politically Empowering the Humanist and Atheist Community.Ron is working to increase the number of open Humanists and Atheists holding political office at all levels. He will tell us about this work. Time / Location: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 on Zoom only. Write … Continue reading Humanist Group Meeting Dec. 5
A central theme of Restorative Justice is managing the conflict in a community, rather than the preference in traditional justice to suppress conflict through punitive means. To give you a flavor of managing conflict using Restorative Justice principles, Claus will share what he learned in a recent workshop on the subject. IN-PERSON in the SCHWEITZER … Continue reading Humanist Group to discuss Restorative Justice
TUESDAY, November 1, 2022, 7:30PM BRUCE LEDEWITZ, Author of THE UNIVERSE, IS ON OUR SIDE Bruce Ledewitz is a Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law. In 1981 he founded the Allegheny County Death Penalty project, which he directed for 13 years. He is a past winner of the Allegheny County Bar Association … Continue reading HUMANIST GROUP NOVEMBER MEETING
Tuesday, September 13, 7:30 in the Schweiter and via Zoom Humanists as an interfaith intiantive, How to recognize a humanist when you see one. Guest speaker John Hooper.
