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 ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest of all the Jewish High Holy Days, literally translates to “day of atonement.” Jews throughout the world express remorse for both their individual sins and those of humanity by ...

“[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 ...

Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital,” the 2024 Booker Prize winner, is not a novel about space exploration as technological triumph, but an ethical meditation on human ambition, fragility and perspective.

A study examining the transmission of intellectual humility from parents to children suggests that the relationship may depend on how this psychological trait is measured. Parents who self-reported ...