Just over seventy years ago, in the autumn of 1948, several hundred people gathered at noon across seven consecutive Saturdays in Cambridge. The location was a lecture hall on Mill Lane, and they were ...

Christians did not invent humility as a virtue, but Christian scripture and subsequent Christian thought put humility at the centre of the moral life in an unprecedented way. Image: “Christ washing ...

Jesus is the reason to stop concentrating on ourselves. Innumerable Christmas devotionals point out the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth—among shepherds, in a crude stable, with a feed trough for ...

Find today’s readings here. Those last two lines: Exalt and you will be humbled, humble and you will be exalted. In the fall of 2020, Orbis Books published my book, “O Death Where is Thy Sting?,” a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The other day my class was discussing George Herbert’s Humilitie, a poetic dream-vision in which the virtues, personified as court officials, accept “tokens of submission” from beasts and fowls who ...

The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...