Seven Gates
The ancient story of Inannna’s descent to and return from the underworld has common threads with other myths, including the importance of collaboration. Even in a heroic epic story, people need each other.
Topic: Better Together
This Refulgent Summer
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Divinity School Address urges listeners to heed direct experience and creative spontaneity. The Transcendentalists tried to balance savoring the world with changing the world. Though some like Felix Adler rightly criticized the Transcendentalists for doing too much of one and not enough of the other, there might yet be inspiration available to … Continue reading This Refulgent Summer
Finding Our Way Through: WES’s Path to Dual Affiliation with the UUA & AEU
Perry Beider and John Daken look back on the discernment process that led to WES’s decision to affiliate with both the UUA and the AEU. Interim Leader Lyn Cox adds thoughts on how our institutional relationships have deepened since 2008.
Where Love and Justice Cross All Borders
WES members who have volunteered in immigration justice, refugee resettlment, and similar movements of solidarity will reflect on putting their values into action and on what WES members might do together next.
Taking Action for the Earth
Members of the Earth Ethics Action Team will reflect on ways they have collaborated with each other, our partner organizations, and the planet to move toward environmental justice.
Understanding Religion in the 21st Century
Though not all WES members self-identify as “religious,” religious Humanism is the closest label we have for a community like this one that gathers for mutual support, discerning values, raising children, and marking life passages without regard for creed or dogma. The old ways of understanding what religion is will have to change if communities … Continue reading Understanding Religion in the 21st Century
Protected: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
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