[BES Friends] Coming events

[Stephen Meskin]

Tomorrow, Sat 8/23, 9:30am, CLEAN UP PARTY: please help cleaning the 
meeting place and bring a friend -- no speeches but food, drinks, and 
soap will be provided.

Sun 8/24 10:30am FINISHING TOUCHES: if needed, and an open discussion 
finishing up the summer program.

Monday 9/1 noon-3pm LABOR DAY PICNIC: at the Nugent's. Contact a member 
for directions.
John Nugent will also will be leading off the new season of Platform. 
Here is a preview of the newsletter.

Sep 7: The Ethical Life and Politics: An Introduction. John Nugent, member

In an introduction to a series of platforms, John will discuss the long 
relationship between ethics and politics going back to Aristotle. He 
will then review the dominant philosophy driving the ethics and politics 
of the current national administration through a review of the research 
and work of Frank Luntz and his book “Words That Work: It’s Not What You 
Say, It’s What People Hear” and a review of the political ideas of Leo 
Strauss.

John Nugent was the CEO of a Hospice program prior to joining Planned 
Parenthood in 1997. He holds an MA in ethics from San Francisco 
Theological Seminary and a BA in philosophy and has been an adjunct 
college philosophy instructor. He was co-chair of the Planned Parenthood 
Federation of America Bioethics task force and served on the National 
Hospice Organization’s ethics committee. John is active in the Board of 
the Washington Area Secular Humanists, the Board of Baltimore Westside 
Market Center Merchants Association, and served on the Board of the 
Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of the Leadership 
Baltimore and Leadership Maryland programs and is currently part of the 
Weinberg Fellows program. John is a certified Humanist 
Celebrant/Officiant through the American Humanist Association.