Martha Gallahue: Spiritual Literacy- What It Means and Where It Is Trending in the U.S.

Martha Gallahue will discuss how the embrace of spirituality has moved to include not only personal practice but also collective activism. She will include discussion of the growing interspirituality movement and stress the importance of Ethical Culture’s stance of non-theism to our participation in it. She will use her experiences from the UN to give examples and tell stories.

Gallahue has enjoyed a long collegial relationship with Dr. Kurt Johnson, one of the world’s leading coordinators of interspirituality, also vice president of National Ethical Service. She has been in leadership positions in a variety of roles with National Ethical Service, the affiliate organization of The American Ethical Union, and which is in association with the United Nations Department of Public Information.

Gallahue presently is an ECOSOC representative at the United Nations with United Religions Initiative, a worldwide non-governmental organization with over 600,000 members. In our local Society, she is promoting the growth of the ethical education initiative whose aim is to develop regular programming especially for children leading to global citizenship.