In Rome there is a monastic ossuary, a boneyard, which is not unusual in itself. But there you will find the skull of a monk long-departed from this life. On it is inscribed, “As you are now so once ...
“With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ...
It was Gordon McGovern’s first day on the job as president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company. In those days 40 years ago, Campbell’s senior leaders typically ate lunch in the executive dining ...
“Check your privilege” and “stay in your lane” are, to my mind, amongst the ugliest of contemporary platitudes. They are aggressive and unnecessary extensions of the classic psycho-spiritual ...
We need humility now more than ever. Recent trends in America suggest that by several different metrics, narcissism may be on the rise. Self-aggrandizing and entitlement have poisoned relationships ...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948 – 2020) exemplified the kind of intellectual and interpersonal humility that he commended as that virtue which “opens us to the world”. (David Levenson / Getty Images) ...