Check out the www.ThisIBelieve.org website and read sample essays.
This movement is described as "A Public Dialogue About Belief--One Essay at a Time."
This I Believe, Inc., was founded in 2004 as a not-for-profit organization that engages youth and adults from all walks of life in writing, sharing, and discussing brief essays about the core values that guide their daily lives.
This I Believe is based on a 1950s radio program of the same name, hosted by acclaimed journalist Edward R. Murrow. Each day, Americans gathered by their radios to hear compelling essays from the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, and Harry Truman as well as corporate leaders, cab drivers, scientists, and secretaries—anyone able to distill into a few minutes the guiding principles by which they lived.
In reviving This I Believe, executive producer Dan Gediman says, “The goal is not to persuade Americans to agree on the same beliefs. Rather, the hope is to encourage people to begin the much more difficult task of developing respect for beliefs different from their own.”
YOUR TASK:
After reading and listening to sample essays, please post a guiding principle or belief by which you live. This should be one statement that begins with, "I believe..."
This is part of the brainstorming process and your ideas might develop or change as we continue this discussion next week.