Foundations for Being Alive Now
We tend human wholeness — the life of the mind, the truth of the body, the wild mystery of the human spirit, and our need for each other.
We elevate voices of wisdom and models of wise thinking and living.
We practice moral imagination; we embrace paradoxical curiosity; we sit with conflict and complexity.
We value ecosystem-building over institution-building; we resource accompaniment and shared learning and muscular hope so that the generative people and projects of our time can flourish as the ecosystem the world needs them to be.
We see beauty as a core moral value and a feature of vitality.
We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright.
We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy.
We endeavor to make goodness and complexity riveting.
We believe that whole spiritual inquiry propels outside the boundaries of the self, into the world.
We work with questions and conversation as social arts and technologies.
We nurture virtues as moral muscle memory towards sustained new realities, including: words that matter, hospitality, generous listening, humility, patience, adventurous civility.
We honor poets and poetry as necessary companions in mustering words spacious and generous enough to reach across the mystery of ourselves and the mystery of each other.
We understand love as the most reliably transformative muscle of human wholeness, and we investigate the workings of love as public practice.
We envision a world that is more fluent in its own humanity — and thus able to rise to the great challenges and promise of this century.
“Every surface of fracture in our world notwithstanding, all of life is being revealed in its insistence on wholeness: the interplay between our bodies, the natural world, the lives we make, the worlds we create. It is the calling of callings to make that vivid and practical and real, starting inside ourselves and with the lives we’ve been given.”
— Krista Tippett
PSG @ Edmund Rice 