The Center for New Thinking, an educational group for people of all religious backgrounds who are interested in ethical change, has been formed by Rabbi Sherwin Wine.

The Newsletter of the Center states, “The Center for New Thinking has been established to educate people for meaningful moral change. It will study the whole range of tradional values and explore realistic alternatives, the task is both exciting and compelling.”

The Center for New Thinking offers classes taught by Rabbi Wine which are held at the Baldwin Library in Birmingham. Rabbi Wine also sponsors conferences through the Center which bring in nationally known thinkers to articulate their ideas on the new thinking.

The new group, formed in January, 1977, aims at a broad audience, Rabbi Wine said. “The Birmingham Temple has as its major thrust humanism in the context of Jewishness. The Center is not interested in Jewishness.”
Rabbi Wine also said that the Center for New Thinking is only educational while the Birmingham Temple is religious.

On March 26 and 27 a conference on “The Radical Evolution of Life Styles” was held at the Management Education Center of Michigan State University in Troy. It featured Jonathan Kozol (author of “Death at an Early Age”), Jean Houston (author of “Mind Games”) and Philip Slater (author of “Earthwalk,” “the Pursuit of Loneliness”).

Classes offered by Rabbi Wine through the Center which are currently in session include “Philosophers of the New Morality” and “Pioneers of New Thinking.”

A May 14 conference is planned feauring James Ramsey author of “Intimate Friendships” and Sonya Friedman, local psychologist.

If interested, more information is available at 646-2034.