by Dale Handeen
One of our humanist movement’s quite prolific contemporary writers, Ed Doerr, has been articulate and passionate about his view that as freethinkers working to improve society we might best regard those of liberal faith traditions to be potentially excellent allies in working toward specific shared social change goals. He challenged liberal thinkers of every stripe to spend less of our energies squabbling amongst ourselves over philosophical differences, and to invest more of our energies in building practical working relationships with people “of faith,” so that, together, we can achieve more of the important social changes we do envision.
Roy Speckhardt, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association, has shared with all of us in print that he makes an effort to be present at interfaith gatherings in the Washington, D.C. area, expressing humanist values, and exploring common ground. Furthermore, I was pleased with Doug Haddon’s suggestion that Humanists of Minnesota begin our program year examining white privilege. continue reading…