At the beginning of the congregational year, Amanda considers whether we live in a secular age or a religious age--and how Ethical Culture can span the divide.

What blessings do animals bring to our lives? Furry friends invited to come.

Fritz Williams says he believes in cultivating opposite, but complementary views of life, and in meeting life's challenges with contradictory strategies. It is by encompassing these opposites, by being involved and vulnerable, but simultaneously transcendent and detached, that our lives are graced by resilience and joy.

Ethics As Religion, 13 September 1998, Don Montagna, WES Leader.

Notes: Don explains why we all need religion, why we receive it in a community, how Ethical Culture builds a religion without supernatural creed, and finally how the community comforts members in grief.

Tikkun Olum - Repairing the World After Genocide, 15 April 2007, Estelle Laughlin, WES Member.

Notes: Compelling testimony from a holocaust survivor.

If Not Us - Who?, 26 February 2006, Don Montagna, WES Leader.

Notes: Wonderful platform on empathy. Do not dehumanize the 'other' but widen the concept of 'us'.

"Loving Someone Dying" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.

"Loving Someone Dying" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.

"Loving Someone Dying" by affirming the worth of every person since 1944.

Humanistic Spirituality, 19 September 2004, Don Montagna, WES Leader.

Notes: Don explains why we need humanistic spirituality, what it is, how to create it. This highly rated talk is one of the member's picks.