Recently our Board of Trustees has been working on a new Ethical Society mission statement, based partly on the many ways we've tried over the years to express our collective purpose. We use our current Statement of Purpose to explain who we are and our Sunday School’s Core Values to guide our curriculum for children and youth. Now our Governance improvement process is working to clarify our core values as a community, asking, "What principles do we intend to observe, no matter what?" This question is both a challenge and an opportunity to examine our noble-sounding words and tackle difficult issues of prioritizing values as well as measuring how we 'walk our talk'.