REALISM IN MIND, IDEALISM IN ACTION

FLOURISH CULTURE. FOR HUMANITY.

The world is growing increasingly divided, polarized, and conflicted. In the West, this is especially seen along the conceptual lines of human and cultural diversity. The root cause of which is our misunderstanding of human nature, and thus what constitutes human diversity and human society as well. For, where there is no humanity, there is nothing to unify us, and only division and strife can remain. Add in the pressures of pluralism and globalization and things are set to grow even more volatile; and even where it does not lead to civil unrest or violence, it still prevents flourishing and redemption, which is ill-fated enough. The good news is, many people on all sides are seeing and feeling this reality and admitting we need new ways of discourse and humane remedies that solve our deeper issues, not merely manage the symptoms. But it just seems so hard for people to find common ground and a common-mind to work together in any meaningful way. And that is where Flume comes in.

Flume is a socially entrepreneurial think tank whose mission is to be a conduit of clarity, creativity, and redemption; to confront dehumanization and cultural disunity; and to cultivate in their place, cultures teeming with meaning, peace, human dignity, human flourishing, the unity of human diversity, and the good, true, and beautiful.

In action, through the diligent use of our integrative, philosophical, first-principled, and holistically humanistic framework (what we call, The Human Experience Framework), Flume exists for three reasons:

For humanity. To help flourish the understanding and affirmation of our common nature as equally dignified and diversely equipped human persons. To foster clarity concerning human nature, human equality, human dignity, human diversity, human flourishing, and the universal human experience.

For peace. To be a voice of reason and mercy in the public square. To help alleviate tension in culture by fostering humane discourse in the pursuit of truth above all else. To ease civil unrest in the pursuit of common ground, common humanity, and common grace.

For flourishing. To foster solutions that are not merely aimed at removing problems but rather toward the cultivation of redemption and a fullness of the good, true, and beautiful for all. To cultivate the means that lead us all toward greater human flourishing—individually, organizationally, socially, culturally, and generationally.