To be gentle is often equated with being passive, fragile, or easily overlooked - a liability rather than a virtue. But the ...

U.S. Coast Guard Academy Cadets raise the first wall on a Habitat for Humanity home Sept. 8, 2012. The on-going project is sponsored by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association class of ...

The classical devotional text of the 14th century by Thomas a Kempis advises readers to be clear that there is much they don’t know and to admit their ignorance. He writes that “our opinions, our ...

Whom would you trust more: an expert who seems to have all of the answers or one who admits what they don’t know? We have spent the past five years studying that question and the many ways people may ...

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Rav Shmuel in the Talmud Is it possible to perceive things “as they are,” or are all our perceptions distorted by the limitations of our ...

The prayer of supplication includes petition. As the Holy Spirit moves within us, the first impulse toward petition is repentance. As we draw closer to God, we realize who we are before him, how we ...

DAVENPORT -- Charisma and spirit made Lynn Mousel willing to join the Congregation of the Humility of Mary. Ms. Mousel, of Des Moines, recently began the process to become a vowed member of the ...

Elise Ji Young Choe receives funding related to this research from a grant from the John Templeton Foundation on "Intellectual Humility and Religious Leaders." Steven Sandage receives funding related ...

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 ...

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed …” — Wallace Stegner The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, was to set ...