Many religions locate the source of ethics in God-given commandments, we find its source in the human condition. What is right or wrong, good or bad is so because it fosters the development of what is best in life. Human intelligence and feelings are the sources and human experience is the sanction of ethics. We grow ethically by increasing our capacity for bringing out the best in others and ourselves. This process begins in the family and extends into friendships and local community and reaches out in relationship to the global human community.
Life is sacred, interrelated and interdependent.
Life is a great, mysterious gift. We affirm our respect for the interdependent web of existence, of which we are all a part. It is our commitment to the goal of a world community with peace, liberty, justice or all. Although the Ethical Culture Movement started with Felix Adler, there are many strands which contributed to it. In fact the Ethical movement is part of the long history of the effort of human beings to find meaning and purpose in life.