The Winter Festival is an annual, multigenerational celebration held in December, often near the winter solstice, to share comfort and hope during the year’s darkest days while looking forward to renewal. A central feature is a secular, humanistic play—written and performed by WES members of all ages—that dramatizes how the community deals with the winter … Continue reading Winter Festival

Join Rev. KC Slack as they focus on the persistent belief that poverty is the result of individual choices, the ways it is expensive to be poor, and how we can imagine and work for a world after homelessness. Music from the U Street Jazz Collective. If you can’t make it in person, join us online … Continue reading Its Expensive to be Poor

Join us for a Sunday Platform Service to refill your bucket and send our out into the world knowing you aren’t in it alone. Music from the DC Labor Chorus.

Join us for this meaningful Sunday–the time each year that we honor those we have lost & consider how their memories continue to change our lives.

Join us for a Sunday Platform Service to refill your bucket and send our out into the world knowing you aren’t in it alone. Music from the WES Chorus.

Join us for a Sunday Platform Service to refill your bucket and send our out into the world knowing you aren’t in it alone. Music from Abby Rasheed.

Join us for a Sunday Platform Service to refill your bucket and send our out into the world knowing you aren’t in it alone. Music from WES member Perry Beider.

You’ve got questions? KC will try to have answers. Submit questions virtually or in the Question Box at WES. Music from the DC Labor Chorus.

Join us and the WES Chorus for a Sunday Platform Service to refill your bucket and send our out into the world knowing you aren’t in it alone. Stick around after platform for a party! We will have a bounce house (not just for kids!) and the always loved Captain Cookie Food Truck!

What is America? What is it to be an American? Who decides and how are their visions propagated? What is the role of history? And how does all of this inform the United States and its citizens’ relationships to facism and authoritarianism? Join us and our musical guests, Amy Thomas (flute) and Fabian Faccio (piano), … Continue reading American Unexceptionalism: On Americanism, Fascism, and History