This I Believe is an international organization engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. Some 100,000 of these essays, written by people from all walks of life, are archived here on our website, heard on public radio, chronicled through our books, and featured in weekly podcasts. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.

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We are deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to our Motherhood Bouquet project to honor the roles mothers play in our lives. Thanks to Steve Ramsay, Margaret Rosenson, michael taylor, Jeanene MacLean, Shari Larson, Joseph Swain, Renee Hudson, Lisa Palczewski, Kristen D. Allaire, Melissa Dinsmore, Elazabeth Van Sant, Bennet Goldstein and Mary Jo Gediman.

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This I Believe: Life Lessons

Give the gift of This I Believe to your favorite high school or college graduate. Books, CDs, audiobooks, an iPhone app and more will help encourage reflection at this important stage of your student's life.

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The Middle Ground

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Whether it’s good versus evil, us against them, left versus right, paper or plastic, regular or decaf, we seem to live in an age that values polarization. But whatever happened to the good old middle ground, the place where diverse people can come together in a sense of unity? Click the links below to read how these essayists believe some middle ground can still be found.

  1. The Tense Middle
  2. The Value of the Middle
  3. Finding One’s Own Middle Ground
  4. The 50-Percent Theory of Life
  5. In Praise of the ‘Wobblies’

In Your Community

This I Believe in Your Community

In New Hampshire at NHTI–Concord Community College, the campus literary journal, The Eye, published a special section devoted to This I Believe essays. The student editors held a contest and selected four essays to feature, stating that the purpose of the journal and of writing itself is "to illustrate the importance of moments: moments of conception, moments of inspiration, moments of understanding." The addition of the "This I Believe" section fosters such goals and understanding.

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