The Ethical Society is a religious congregation of members, in many ways like a church or a synagogue. Many of our purposes and activities are the same: to comfort and celebrate with each other the passages of life, to learn and understand a good way of life, to interpret our world and our experience in a meaningful way, to give succeeding generations whatever gifts of wisdom we have preserved and enriched. We do not, however, base our institutional life on a common history, a common nationality, or a commonly accepted creed or dogma.