Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age" describes the lived experience of believers and non-believers. What might we learn about spirituality from the long arc of "devout humanism"?

Abraham, Jacob, and Job—three men who experienced the Divine in ways none of us ever have. What can we learn from them?

Groups can be thought of as systems in which every element contributes to the whole—and the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Communication is the heart of the learning community. This is a meditation on communication for communion with one another through humility, grace, and faith.

Gratitude for guidance along the way . . .

The murders of nine worshippers in Charleston, S. C. call us to examine ourselves. Who have we become? This moment can be our teacher.

Our everyday reality is made up of our interactions with others and our consciousness of ourselves as beings in the world.

How do science and religion change? Through paradigms and paradigm communities.

The Ethics of Care creates conditions in which it is desirable to do good. It works from the inside out, to one's family, community, and the world.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, lectures delivered to his students over 2,000 years ago, is a profound study of the ends to which our conduct should be directed.

How happiness became ethics.

The ethics of Kant, Buber, and Marcel are about the deep relationships between people.

Reverence is the forgotten virtue. But it's essential to our own well-being and to our communities. Here's why . . .

The American health care system lags behind the rest of the industrialized world. Here's an ethical perspective on the relation of poverty and health care.

Hope sustains us in the moments of suffering and points us to the future. The Sabbath experience is a paradigm of this suffering hope that works in the world.

Religious and mystical experiences open a window to the mysterious and the essential in human understanding.

We drop from innocence to dark experience in life, but we may rise higher than we started through the compassion curve.

In a participatory democracy the media plays a key role for an informed citizenry. Our media is enormously powerful as a propaganda tool.

Art began as a part of ritual life, then functioned as spiritual technology. Now it's a hedge against inflation and an investment. But it was always there to inspire . . .

Flow is the method of optimal experience by which we can enjoy our challenges and gain more from life.

Gratitude for guidance along the way . . .

We are blessed to communicate—this wondrous thing—as John Dewey called it. This is a meditation on communication for community through humility, grace, and faith.

Making ethical decisions is not simple or clear cut. That's why we call them ethical dilemmas. Here are four paradigms that can help us make those tough decisions.

Economic justice concerns how economic practices affect the members of a society. The aim is to treat all members equally and fairly.

Edward Snowden brought the NSA's surveillance to light for the world. How do we regard his actions from ethical perspectives?

Our meanings for life are many and varied, but they spring from the context of our society and culture. Roy Baumeister offers an interpretation from a psychological and philosophical point of view.

Humans are a mystery to themselves. What does it mean to say "me," for example? This deck looks at some perspectives on the self from philosophy and religions of the world.

We need an ethic that goes beyond human relationships. We need to take the third step toward a land ethic.

We make our ethical decisions often really without thinking. Ethical reasoning gives us the tools to make decisions more thoughtfully. Ethics is a dialogue on living toward actions that count in the world.

Topos for Aristotle meant 'place' or 'site.' It also meant one's topic for a speech. Here are five ways to find your place in preparing for a presentation.

Desire, understanding, remembering and applying. These are the four purposes to accomplish in an informative speech.

What's a good definition for The Real? What's under the surface of what we see? Here are several definitions of what remains after all the illusions are gone.

Here is a framework for connecting with people through presentations. These are five skills that everyone can master for great public speaking.

Philosophy is a way for all of us to live and learn well. Start where you are, use what you have, enjoy what you're given, share what you've learned.

One of the biggest challenges for presenters and public speakers is knowing how to connect with their audiences. These are time-tested ways to do just that.

Communicating effectively is what we all want. How do we do that in a global culture with so much noise in the channel--and so many channels? We've got to stand back and see the process; effective communication takes practice. And knowing about the elephant helps too!

How does a culture learn and grow? Here are three traditional models—and a personal view to changing learning for life.

There are many ways to learn, but sometimes we only think about the usual ones—learning in a traditional classroom setting and learning on our own through trial-and-error. Dr. Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, offers a research-based approach called Mindful Learning that has had surprising results for thousands of people. Here are some of the essential points of this alternative sideways learning approach.