Beth Ami
Colorado Congregation for Humanistic Judaism
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Colorado Congregation for Humanistic Judaism
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2004 Boulder International Humanist Institute Speaker Series presents Humanist Ethics - A Roadmap to Personal and World Peace Saturday, November 6, 630p, Stadium Club, Folsom Field Rabbi Thomas Heyn, Coordinator of the "Jewish Spirituality Network" of Southwestern Ohio and Visiting Rabbi for Beth Ami--Colorado Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, will be one of three featured speakers at a symposium on "Does Humanism offer our best chance for peace?" to be held in Boulder on Saturday November 6 at 6:30 PM. The symposium, sponsored by the Boulder International Humanist Institute ( www.bihi.info) and co-sponsored by Beth Ami and the CU Philosophy Department, will be in the Folsom Field Stadium Club in the new east side football stands, on Colorado Avenue, just west of 28th street (a donation of $10 is requested; visitor parking is across from the conference facility). Rabbi Heyn will speak on authoritarian and humanistic traditions in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.The keynote address will be by world-famous philosopher Mario Bunge, of McGill University, who will speak on "World Problems and Humanist Ethics," summarizing the Humanist approach to ethical decisions and subsequent social and political action. Also sharing the platform will be John Benyon, President of the UN Association of Boulder, who will speak on the recent move away from reliance on evidence-as the basis for US foreign and public policy. This conference, coming just after the national election, will have important implications for addressing the question "where do we go from here?" |
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