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It’s National Train Your Brain Day
What Is Emergence?
Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing
Can Leadership Virtues be Taught? Developing Virtuous School Leaders
‘Together in Our Differences’
What Is Fine Tuning?
What Is Future-Mindedness?
Clean Slate: How to Leave the Past Behind and Start Anew
Gratitude as a Fount of Virtue: Examining How Gratitude Fosters Other Noble Character Traits
Cultivating Virtue: Servant Leadership Development for Education
Best of All Possible Worlds?
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? | New Research Review from FQXi
Give Yourself the Gift of Generosity
What Is Organism-Centered Evolution?
A Value-Ethical Approach to Assessing Virtues: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Validity
Enhancing Practice-Based Evidence for Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies: An Interdisciplinary Big Data Project
The Black Hole in the Basement: Part II
Giving More Than Is Expected
Character Strength Interventions in Adolescents: Engaging Scholars and Practitioners to Promote Virtue Development
Foundational Questions In Cosmology
Why is the universe the way it is? Ancient societies over told creation stories to answer that question, which seems to be as old as human civilization itself. Cosmology seeks new answers. Millennia later, the urge to understand the integrated whole of reality, and humans’ place in it, remains undiminished. Indeed, in some respects the universe turns out to be far more vast and astonishing than our ancestors imagined — making questions of its origins and structure even more compelling areas for investigation. Exploring these kinds of big questions is a central aim of the John Templeton Foundation, so we support a number of projects…
Deity prototypes in individuals and families
Nine Ways to Make a Diamond
Announcing a New Request for Proposals to Advance Applied Research on Intellectual Humility
Character Virtue Development Evaluation Capacity Building Initiative
What’s the Point of It All? The Quest for a Purposeful God
Character Strength Interventions in Adolescents: Engaging Scholars and Practitioners to Promote Virtue Development
Global Resilience Oral Workshops (GROW) Zambia: A Storytelling Approach to Hope and Resilience through Character Training and Spiritual Practices
Center for Pastor Theologians
More than Selfish Genes: Understanding the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Publishing illustrated children’s books and workbooks that teach and encourage character and virtue development in generations of Muslim children
The Joy Campaign: Sharing the Wisdom of the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu to Bring Spiritual Practice to Contemporary Generations
Cultivating Relational Virtues in Parents and Children
Bringing Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapies into the Healthcare Mainstream: A Preparatory Grant Proposal for an International Grant Competition
Was Our Universe Made for Us?
The Character and Virtue Development in Youth Ministry (CVDYM) Project
The Transformative Power of Humility
Give Well, Feel Great: The Science of Gift Giving and Receiving
A Course of Study Strengthening Character Development in Jewish Communities through Tikkun Middot, Applying Mindfulness to Practice of Moral Qualities
How God Works Podcast (Seasons 3-6)
Desmond Tutu’s Message of Love and Peace for Easter
Did Religion Help the Rise of Civilizations in the Americas?
Religions and the Emergence of Civilizations in the Americas In our contemporary culture, it is often assumed that organized religion is a conservative force that impedes the development of human societies. Depending on one’s allegiances, one may view religion as an obstacle that must be overcome, or as a fortification against society’s descent into chaos. But rarely does anyone stop and ask the question, “To what degree might religion actually contribute to cultural innovation and progress of a society?” Historians in recent years have challenged the modernist assumption that religious institutions are obstacles to human flourishing. Rather than accepting this…
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Atheism and Unbelief
Towards a psychology and sociology of atheism and non-belief If the world’s estimated 1.1 billion atheists and non-believers were grouped together as their own “religion,” they would be the world’s third-largest, trailing only Christianity and Islam. Any serious psychology or sociology of religion must take into account the beliefs and experiences of non-believers — yet the scientific study of atheism and non-belief has lagged behind the study of religions, with varied forms of non-belief often relegated to being defined by what they aren’t rather than what they are. The John Templeton Foundation enthusiastically supports scientific research that touches on many…
Developing Character for Chicago Inner-City Youth
The Evolution of Cooperation
Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena It’s easy to take cooperation for granted. Children team up to complete a project on time. Neighbors help each other mend fences. Colleagues share ideas and resources. The very fabric of human society depends upon working together. Cooperation is also ubiquitous in the natural world: lions collaborate on hunts, flowers share nectar with bees, and even bacteria produce essential resources that benefit their neighbors. But cooperation goes beyond mere quid pro quo — mutual aid for mutual benefit — and also takes the form of…
Spirituality and Medicine
Scientists and medical practitioners are taking a fresh look at the ways that patients’ religious beliefs affect their healthcare needs. When we think of the frontiers where religion and science intersect — in conflict, harmony, or confusion — we might envision a philosophical debate at a university, a particle accelerator probing the origins of the universe, or perhaps a high-stakes courtroom battle like the Scopes “Monkey” trial. For most people, though, the realms of the spiritual and the scientific meet most practically on the sickbed. Doctors, nurses, and other health care providers, along with patients and their loved ones, are…
Finding Joy Through Generosity
To Change How You Feel, Change How You Think
The Science of Forgiveness
Future-Mindedness
Great Expectations: New insights into how and why we think about the future What do you expect to be doing in five seconds? Five months? Five decades? Thinking about the future is a form of mental time travel at which humans are uniquely skilled. Psychologists call it prospection or future-mindedness, and some have argued it offers an invaluable framework for understanding topics ranging from perception, cognition, imagination, and memory to free will and consciousness itself. In a 2013 paper — later expanded into the book Homo Prospectus — University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman and co-authors Peter Railton,…
Can We Know God? New Insights From Religious Epistemology
Are religious beliefs rational? Is knowledge of God even possible? Are the evils we observe in the world evidence against God’s existence? Since the late twentieth century, epistemological questions of this nature have been central to the philosophy of religion. The work of two leading theistic philosophers, Alvin Plantiga and Richard Swinburne, divided the field of research into two distinct research programs. Broadly speaking, the debates between the two camps are representative of two larger positions in epistemology: internalism, according to which the rationality of beliefs is only determined by factors internally accessible to the believer; and externalists, according to…
