In WES's annual platform on Valentine's, Amanda shares thoughts on covenant--promises that we make to each other, whether in our marriage, our family, or our religious community--and how love runs through the promises make.

What are the foundational principles of an Ethical Culture perspective on life, truth, and the world around us. What makes Ethical Culture unique? How might the world be better if our values were more widely shared? What are we called to do and to be?

In this traditional platform, WES members reflect on how they wish to live in the coming year.

We often talk about the importance of neighborliness, of connecting with our community. But in these times of extended families flung across the country, of email and videoconferencing, of apartment buildings and suburban sprawl, who are our neighbors?

A thanksgiving platform celebration to reflect on the abundance in our lives and prepare ourselves to make the most of our own Thanksgiving with family and friends.

When playwright Nicole Burton, an adopted person, set out to find her birth family, she couldn't have known of the odyssey and gifts that were in store for her. Her search and reunion unfolded in places as far apart as England, Italy and Louisiana. Nicole describes how reunion has helped her build courage, acceptance and a greater capacity for love.

How do we live truly sustainable lives--in our personal choices and in the world at large? What dos it mean to have enough, to have lives of plenty? And how can we seek to live sustainably in our religious community?

This annual Remembrance Day service seeks to honor those we have lost over the last year and throughout our lives. We consider more deeply the ways that w, and those we love, are both broken and whole, both flawed and somehow perfectly, uniquely ourselves.

Many have heard the insightful, honest, fascinating essays on National Public Radio's "This I Believe," by people from around the nation telling us what they accept as true. Four WES members say what they believe, how they came to believe it, and why it is so important to them.

We live our lives by coming into, and then occasionally falling out of, right relationships with ourselves, with others, and with life itself. Each new year in the life of the WES community, the opportunity arises to prepare ourselves with a fresh start.