Sunday Service: Who was Bertrand Russell?

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century. As the 3rd Earl Russell, he was a philosopher, mathematician, logician, social critic, pacifist, and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.  In his later years he was famous for his activism against nuclear weapons. Russell was proud of his agnosticism and was a member of the British Humanist Association.

Speaker: Helen Bennett

Helen Bennett is a poet/author from Brooklyn, New York, who has written eight books of poetry, humanism, and a memoir. She is a retired librarian, editor, and high school and college English teacher, and has been teaching at Senior Adventures in Learning (SAIL) for the past 21 years. Helen has been a Unitarian Universalist and Humanist since 1995, and holds degrees from Brooklyn College (Phi Beta Kappa), the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Florida Atlantic University. She has been a member of Friendship Fellowship since 2004.