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Spiritual Yearning and the Problem of Spiritual Alienation

Planning Grant: Bringing Diverse Christian Communities to the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

One brain, many genomes: How the genomic individuality of cells defines human individuality

Science and Theology Entrepreneur Incubator: Increasing Engagement of Science and Theology Among University Students in Latin America and F. Africa

Resources on Philosophy and Theology in Brazilian Portuguese

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New Assessments and Measures of Virtues

Introduction Both scientific research on character development and the design of interventions intended to promote it require measures of, or techniques for assessing, virtues in individuals.  In the research domain, cumulative progress in understanding virtues and their development depends on the existence of measures that are construct-valid and widely-adopted.  Similarly, the creation of evidence-based virtue education efforts requires good evidence in the form of measures or assessments that not only meet scientific standards of validity and reliability, but also are usable by non-specialists and provide results that can be related to the “real world.” Very few such measures exist today,…

Sir John

As a pioneer in both financial investment and philanthropy, the late Sir John Templeton spent a lifetime encouraging open-mindedness. If he had not sought new paths, he once said, "I would have been unable to attain so many goals." The motto that Sir John created for his Foundation, "How little we know, how eager to learn," exemplified his philosophy both in the financial markets and in his groundbreaking methods of philanthropy. John Marks Templeton was born on November 29, 1912, in the small town of Winchester, Tennessee. He followed in his brother's footsteps and attended Yale University, supporting himself during the…

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,…