evidence: Kant conveyed what we need in the balance: "Two things fill the mind with awe and wonder the more often and more steadily we look upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." The first, he continued, strikes down our self-conceit. Any sky that's sufficiently clear to reveal enough stars will remind you of your place in a universe that dwarfs you. Yet the moral law you know you could follow if you were willing to stand up for justice lets you know how tall you can stand. I've been arguing for a worldview in which reason and reverence are not at odds but in tandem. They work together like Kant's moral law and starry heavens - in order to be decent, we must keep one eye on each. In order to be decent: not because religion is the foundation of morality, though it can be a way of expressing it, but because reverence involves gratitude for Creation and awareness of our dependence on it. [...] Susan Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum, and is the author of many books, including Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists.