The word human comes from the Latin word humus, which means soil, earth, dirt, and dust. The word humility interestingly comes from the same root word – humus. To be humble then is to be humus – ...

Professor Scott Hahn on Friday, April 4, spoke to Harvard’s Catholic Church, St. Paul’s, about the saving truth of Scripture. Hahn, one of today’s most well-known American Catholic scholars, has ...

During my writer’s group this week, I discussed an online course entitled “Cultivating Humility” that I’ll be offering this fall with my teaching partner Marla Estes of Building Bridgers. After ...

Benjamin Franklin once (foolishly!) decided to embark on a project of attaining moral perfection. He decided that 13 virtues were either necessary or desirable, and he arranged them so that each would ...

If I asked you to describe your idea of a typical college president, I doubt that the word “humility” would be among the first adjectives that come to mind. The story about their little fishing trip ...

Bowdoin’s director of religious and spiritual life, Oliver Goodrich, recalls the dirty and humbling experience of picking potatoes that helped him understand his place in the world and the idea that ...