Lately, I’ve taken to saying the Litany of Humility. It was recommended to me by a priest-friend as part of my spiritual exercises. I must admit that I balked at first. Me? In need of more humility?
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 ...
Christians did not invent humility as a virtue, but Christian scripture and subsequent Christian thought put humility at the centre of the moral life in an unprecedented way. Image: “Christ washing ...
"In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ ...
The Bishop of Lagos Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Adebola Ademowo, has identified humility as a key virtue which Christians must imbibe in the service to God. Serving God without humility would ...
But was Moshe really the most humble person on Earth? This is puzzling, given that Moshe is the leader who communicated ...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means that Jesus says, “My yoke is easy and my burden light.” Although today’s readings do not include that line, they resonate with it: The first reading ...
“Humility is above all God’s Way” and, it “must be the way of Christians”, Pope Francis said in his homily at mass on Palm Sunday in St Peter’s Square, attended by some 100,000 pilgrims and followed ...
God created human beings to worship Him and a practising Muslim in, essence, should be able to worship God in every second, of every hour of every day. Islam is a way of life and it means nothing more ...
Obviously, in our lessons today -- God’s Word that we are listening to carefully -- we are being instructed about humility. This is a virtue that I think many of us have some trouble with -- even ...