Ethical Culture, the cultivation of ethical living, is a means by which we build an intergenerational community that challenges and comforts us in our ethical growth.

Deed not creed: we hold in common our recognition that our words and deeds make a difference in this world, and that working to create a more humane world for ourselves, our children and others is a worthwhile commitment. There is no religious test for membership: belief or disbelief in deity (or other metaphysical ideas) is less important to us than how we live our values: respect for individual human worth and respect for the world which sustains human life, dignity and worth.

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