This is not the place to deal with all the challenges we face from prisoners of conscience to minority oppression to animal welfare, from war to poverty, from environmental respect to population growth, from issues of religion and state to those of democracy in our world today. The technological revolution continues apace and the development of science faces us with a steady challenge of bio- and techno-ethical issues. At the same time we who profess a nontraditional religion have need to consider the path of both individuation and cooperation with other religious groups and movements, humanist and traditional. What we particularly want to bring to bear on all these developing and ongoing concerns is a focus on effective goodness underpinned by clear thinking, high motivation, and passionate commitment. We share with numerous others a special interest in ethics in thought and action, but the ethical perspective is our reason for being and the challenge to us is to make that perspective a reasonable, attractive, and accessible option on the map of our time.