To think well about spirituality, protect both conscience and truth. Spirituality can inspire awe and transformation, but when it affects shared life, it enters public belief. Let people hold their private spiritual meanings, but when they want you or others to belief a claim, that makes it a public belief. Empirical claims must answer to the material world. Rational claims hold together logically and explore meaning, identity, and the unknown. The irrational category includes both speculative and disproven claims. Hold speculative beliefs with humility, without claiming public truth. Let go of disproven claims as truth, even if you keep them for personal or pragmatic reasons.