Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the ...

Intellectual humility fosters open-mindedness and respectful dialogue. It involves acknowledging the limitations of our knowledge and genuinely valuing diverse perspectives. Intellectually humble ...

Being a religious leader means wearing many different hats. At times, their congregations expect them to convey passionate confidence – to be models of faith and strength. But wise leadership also ...

Humility is lauded as a virtue in most world cultures and wisdom traditions. But I’m wary of those who counsel deferential or pious humility to contain and admonish those who have strong opinions and ...

“[O]ur picture of ourselves has become too grand,” Iris Murdoch lamented in 1997. “We have lost the vision of a reality separate from ourselves.” Today, humility is considered a vice in many corners ...

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 ...