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 ...

Of the many virtues we find in the Bible, which is most significant? Love? Holiness? Generosity? Integrity? Selflessness? In Galatians 5:22-23 we find one short list of possibilities: “But the fruit ...

The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

What is humility? It’s not humiliation, nor groveling, nor subordination. It manifests in truthful self-perception, honest self-other relations and is about deep connection to others. In a recent ...

Look up “humility” and the online dictionary says “The state or character of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a low estimate of one's self; self-abasement.” Now look ...

Humility and hospitality, two central themes that emerge from this Sunday's readings, are two virtues that need to be recovered for the full flourishing of life on the planet. The first reading from ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday closed his catechetical series on vices and virtues with a review of humility, a virtue that forms the “the base of Christian life” and is a source of peace for the Church ...

I’m taking another stab at something I’ve been experimenting with the past few weeks: looking at spiritual concepts that have nearly universal applications for the religious and non-religious alike.

Here’s how a faculty programme helped educators embed qualities that underpin sound thinking and responsible leadership into the teaching of business students At a time when headlines routinely remind ...

There are four types of humility apparent in SBHG communities: intrapersonal, interpersonal, community and ecological, which interact throughout the lifespan. But the most critical foundations are ...