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 ...
It is a common charge that religious adherents cannot be intellectually humble because they believe they possess of divine revelation. But even members of deeply conservative religious groups can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Christian thinkers have long wrestled with what it means to claim that the God of Jesus Christ is for us. In a dense, probing work of constructive theology, Matthew A. Wilcoxen asks: What if humility ...
It’s hard to be humble. St. Benedict (480-547), called the “Father of Western Monasticism”, wrote a guide to humility that is still popular today. The guide is a chapter within Benedict’s Rule, which ...
As a professor, I know you’re under pressure. Let me share what I’ve learned in 20 years in the classroom. College comes with many pressures: pressure to perform. Pressure to fit in. Pressure to find ...