🌀 Templeton

• 🌌NOVA Wonders

  A storied series provides a cutting-edge take on a set of age-old questions

• 🤔How can we discover the properties of God?

  A widely-used philosophical approach to theology may turn out to be less than perfect.

• 📢FIRE’s Speech, Outreach, Advocacy, and Research Project

  Longtime free speech advocates are working to keep the First Amendment relevant — and robustly protected — on college campuses

• 🌍Freedom Forum Global Expansion

  From Oslo to Johannesburg and beyond, writing the next chapter for a storied human rights gathering

• 🏛️Stanford Religious Liberty Clinic

  Discover how Stanford Law School's Religious Liberty Clinic, in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation, pioneers full-time legal education for defending and understanding religious freedoms.

• 🎓Enhancing Student Purpose with the Middle School Ambassador Program

  When testing is not enough…helping students define their purpose

• 🤝Faith, Politics, and Intellectual Humility

  A public symposium on the prospects for civil discussion

• 🌌New Directions in Philosophy of Cosmology

  In the wild world of string theory, quantum gravity, and multiple universes, should the standard scientific methodology still apply?

• 🤝Surprising Allies

  A new book dispels myths about scientists and people of faith

• 🖖WOW, WHY, HOW?

  Post by post, Orbiter is building an online archive of wonder as it explores the big questions of the natural and social sciences

• 🌱Human Flourishing and Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

  Building a network of young scholars to reconnect the social sciences with the big questions of human life and happiness

• 🌐Purpose

  Reviewing six decades of research into the meaning, development, and benefits of purpose in life

• 🔬Scientists in Synagogues

  Inviting Jewish congregations to explore awe, curiosity and wonder through the lens of science

• 🇺🇸Coalition of Freedom

  Twenty-first-century tools are making the United States’ founding document easier than ever to explore and understand

• 🙏The Spiritual, Character, and Virtue Formation of Seminarians

  Seminary training makes for better theologians and ministers. But does it make them more loving, humble, or resilient?

• 🤔Getting to the Right Question — and Beyond

  Can a creative technique that works for third-graders help grad students launch their research careers?

• 🔬Expanding Science for Seminaries

  Equipping tomorrow’s clergy to discuss scientific findings and technological advances — and the big questions they raise

• 🔬Science for Seminaries

  Equipping tomorrow’s clergy to discuss scientific findings and technological advances — and the big questions they raise

• 🎥The Illumination Tour

  When what seems like “the ultimate curse” becomes “the ultimate state of being.”

• 📝The 2017 Templeton Prize Ceremony

  Celebrating the philosophical achievements of Alvin Plantinga

• 🔍Interview | Opening Up on Open Science

  The director of the Center for Open Science speaks with Templeton.org about the “reproducibility crisis” and his organization’s plans to help scientific research stay true to its values.

• 🎓High school debate turns to the Big Questions

  Does science leave room for free will? High school debaters have some ideas.