Being a religious leader means wearing many different hats. At times, their congregations expect them to convey passionate confidence – to be models of faith and strength. But wise leadership also ...

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier ...

A recent review out of Hope College in Michigan looks at the value of humility through a variety of studies. In everyday conversation we might recognize humility as the socially normalized tendency to ...

In his 1861 treatise “Walking,” a remarkable reflection on life’s ample complexities, Henry David Thoreau poses a question vital even today: “Which is the best man to deal with — he who knows nothing ...

Genuine confidence can sometimes feel like a rare gem in a world filled with pride and arrogance. Interestingly, leaders in fields like the military, corporate world, education, politics, and faith ...

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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,…” — Bible (Philippians 2:3) Bill’s wife Janet has just asked him to take out the trash. Bill gets ...

My academic star began to soar in high school, once I was freed from the rote inanities of multiplication tables, subject-verb agreements, and the other small-minded preoccupations of my middle-school ...

When did we last hear about humility? It doesn’t seem to hold much value these days. Rather, the focus seems to be on boasting, confrontation, exaggeration and self-promotion. Recently Vicki ...

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