We don't often talk about God at the Ethical Society. But just what God aren't we talking about? The word is important in our interfaith work, our interactions with the wider world, and for some of us in our own spiritual journeys. Amanda explores the changing conceptions of God over the last thousand years or so--just a quick overview! You are invited to reflect on what "that word" really means.

The fall and the start of our new congregational year together bring a host of new possibilities. We can easily find ourselves being driven by them, rather than engaging them with intention. Intentionality is bout facing ourselves, loving ourselves, broken and whole, incomplete and striving. Mary explores what it means to make a fresh start.

This celebratory Sunday marks the symbolic return from summer to our community. Amanda looks at the importance of staying power, in our congregational life and in our faith--and how Ethical Culture brings hope for us and for the world.

This Labor Day celebration features music from the DC Labor Chorus, ld by Dr. Elise Bryant, a professor at the National Labor College.

Amanda considers questions sent to her by members--from the state of WES to the state of the world.

Amanda and others explore how raising children--our own and other people's--enriches our experiences of joy, mindfulness and trust.

Barbara takes the advent of her 80th birthday to imagine her life both through her own lens and the lens of scientific discovery and possibility. She explores the importance of science in hr own journey and the incredible diversity of the natural world.

Amanda reflects on the importance and the difficulty of slowing down.

As a religious person who believes in science, Amanda explores the ways in which the two disciplines inform and challenge each other. The first in a "Science and Reason" theme.

Part of the point of religious community is to help us grow into qualities of spiritual maturity, enabling us to conduct our lives with dignity, grace and meaning. The concept of spiritual maturity implies that some ways of living are qualitatively better than others; is that so? The Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons is Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, Co-Dean of the Humanist Institute and adjunct faculty at Union Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.