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The Circle of Reason, noted by The Pluralism Project at Harvard as a "promising practice,"  is a Twin Cities, Minnesota-based international society of theists, atheists, conservatives and liberals who espouse the social philosophy of "pluralistic rationalism,"   which the society describes as "communal commitment to the basic methodological tenets of a reasoning lifestyle (reality's acceptance, assumption's denial, and emotion's mastery)," and which it claims is practiced through "encouraging reasoning thinking, behavior and communication in all people irrespective of their disparate beliefs, backgrounds, and current ideological or tribal affiliations."

Practices of the pluralistic rationalist society have included organizing the theist+atheist "Secular Bible Study" for reasoning dialogues on the cultural and historical context of the Bible, and "Ancient Greek Peripatetic"-style nature walks combined with "transcultural, transbelief reasoning dialogue" on current social issues; organizing and moderating "Assumptions on the [MN Same-Sex] Marriage Amendment: A Reasoning Forum" for theists, atheists, conservatives & liberals;  defending a legislator shunned by the Catholic hierarchy for refusing to pass doctrine-based anti-abortion laws; and presenting an address on pluralistic (methodological) rationalism, "Be Sane — Be VERY Sane!" to the "Rally to Restore Sanity Minnesota" at the State Capitol.