A Personal Message to You

    Every Ethical Society is different, taking on the tone and hue of its members and leaders.  It is designed that way.  Dogma goes out the window, and mutual appreciation, learning, and creativity comes in.

    Every Ethical Society is also the same, in calling people back to their real worth, unique and beyond compare, existing in a web of worth with others.

    Please look through these pages and discover a new starting-point for human living.  Be sure to check out the Upcoming Events, and then check us out in person.

Dear Visitor,

You're told what to do in a thousand ways.
You're told how to dress, how to smell,
what to read, what to buy.
You're told who you should be.
But your true worth doesn't come from there.
Your true worth is a mystery,
at the core of your being,
being human,
being interhuman.
We honor your true worth.
We can't pretend to say what it is.
We can't pretend to define it in philosophical or religious words.
Is it a potency or an actuality?
We can't say.
But we can say,
we affirm your worth.
We can say, we strive to become better at affirming your worth,
and affirming the worth of every person, and acting from this belief.
On this basis we band together,
To support each one's striving,
To affirm each one's worth,
To change the world where it violates worth,
To shape the world into one that honors and respects the worth and dignity of all.
Join with us, that through inspiration, courage, and love,
a wave of change in people's hearts and minds may sweep the world
and bring renewed purpose in life and joy in the living.

Write to me.

Sincerely,

Bob Greenwell
Leader,
Mid Rivers Ethical Society

Bob Greenwell is Leader of Ethical Society Mid Rivers.  He works with the Board of Trustees of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, until such time as the fledgling Ethical Society Mid Rivers is able to incorporate, establish its own Board, and become independently self-supporting.  He was selected after a search process by the St. Louis Society for an Organizing Leader.

He is charged with the task of making the new Ethical Society a vital and growing community.  He was certified as a Leader in the Ethical Movement in the summer of 2002 by the American Ethical Union.  He was a Leader Intern both at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture under Leader Curt Collier and at the Ethical Society of St. Louis under Leader Judy Toth.

From 1997-2001, Bob was Program Director of the St. Louis Society.  Earlier he had been a practicing licensed professional counselor.  He has a Master's Degree in Counseling from the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and also studied three years of philosophy at the Graduate School of St. Louis University.

He resides in St. Louis with his wife Kathleen.  He has two daughters and four grandchildren.  Born in Indiana in 1946 and raised Catholic, he explored deeply in many religions of the world before finding the Ethical Society in 1989, which has become his lasting home.