Platform Video: Ethical Culture on HNN podcast

If you're planning to be at the Ethical Culture Society on Sunday, March 14, you're in for a rare treat: the making of a podcast. Co-hosts of the Humanist Network News audio podcast, Jes Constantine and Jende Huang, will interview an EC member and conduct an audience discussion forum. The recorded result will be brought back to their Albany, NY, studio and produced into an upcoming episode, which will then be available for download to your computer or portable listening device. How 21st century!

To whet your whistle, listen as Jes and Jende plug the event in HNN episode #47 (listen to the whole episode or fast forward to 46m 20s):

(Scroll down in the above player to episode #43 to hear the interview with Kate Lovelady, Leader of the Ethical Society of St. Louis - starts at 25m 12s and runs for 14 minutes.)

Originated by the Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS), the HNN podcast was retained by the American Humanist Association when the two organizations merged in 2009. The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County received an IHS grant in 2004 that was used to produce this commercial:

Why not be good for goodness sake?

The American Humanist Association is embarking on an advertising campaign on Washington DC Metrobuses.  Here's an article about the campaign from the Washington Post:

Taking Atheism for a Ride Around Town

By John Kelly

Wednesday, November 12, 2008; Page B03

If you sometimes find yourself praying for a seat on a crowded Metrobus, some atheists have a message for you: Don't bother.

They would say that, wouldn't they? Prayer's not their thing. And starting Tuesday they'll be bringing their unique brand of holiday message to area commuters. Advertisements will begin popping up on Metrobuses in the District that read: "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake."

At a news conference at the National Press Clubyesterday, members of the American Humanist Association -- one of the country's leading atheist and agnostic organizations -- explained what they're up to.

"Our message is that all of us can have moral values as a natural result of who we are as a species and who we have become as a civilization," said Fred Edwords, the association's director of communications. "Each one of us knows what it means, generally, to be ethical."

Read the rest here.