I believe in the power of humility. I don’t mean wandering around aimlessly like an out-of-work circus clown, but rather the force of nature that allows you to laugh at yourself, to not take yourself ...

Glory and grandeur run through the Arabic word of this week. Kibriyaa goes beyond pride. It suggests majesty and commands reverence, yet invites caution. Like most Arabic words, the seeds of its ...

Professor Scott Hahn on Friday, April 4, spoke to Harvard’s Catholic Church, St. Paul’s, about the saving truth of Scripture. Hahn, one of today’s most well-known American Catholic scholars, has ...

Readings: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a Luke 14:1, 7-14 We meet him first as a young man in the 1870s. He will not live to die an old man. He is a son of the aristocracy. How many ...

In fact, when word got around that I was researching humility, I suspect more than a few choked on their coffee. And even though I have spent over a decade exploring the concept as an attribute and as ...

In my last post, I discussed the principle of intellectual charity as an essential element of constructive political conversations. As a companion to the principle of charity, we also need to ...

During my writer’s group this week, I discussed an online course entitled “Cultivating Humility” that I’ll be offering this fall with my teaching partner Marla Estes of Building Bridgers. After ...