The "poor in spirit," to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount, are the humble people who live with an awareness of ...

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 Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Daniel Lee In corporate ...

In our fiercely competitive society, achievement has become the top priority. We have become obsessed with personal success and will often stop at nothing to achieve it, even if it means breaking the ...

In the early 2000s, while I was working as a curriculum designer, cultural competency specialist, trainer, and coach to support HIV/AIDS peer educators (most of whom were themselves living with ...

Humility has been lauded as a virtue in most world cultures and wisdom traditions. More recently, scientists have started to study humility, and they’re discovering its many benefits. “Psychologists ...

Many years ago we had staying with us a clergyman to whom I listened with close attention. One day he spoke of someone as “having the rare grace of humility.” I think he must have meant that this ...

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 ...

The 1999 film The Matrix is famous for coining the metaphor of the “red pill.” In the imaginary world of the movie, people live largely in a state of illusion, experiencing a completely managed ...

“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 ...