Last week, I took on the subject of humility, mostly by railing against what humility is not. I said humility is not pretending to be unaware of one's strengths and talents, nor is it restraining ...
The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...
He was inspired in 1990, when the Dalai Lama met with a group of rabbis and Jewish scholars for a Jewish-Buddhist dialogue.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mitch (Purdue President Mitch Daniels) – thank you for your kind and generous introduction. Last January, when Mitch invited me to give your graduation address, COVID had not ...
The first time I remember hearing about “cultural humility” was some years ago when I served as a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Team at Big Bend Hospice. I recall reading an article by Silvia ...
When I started college at 19 years old, I was functionally illiterate in English because I studied my formative years in Arabic and Islamic schools in Yemen. I did not know how to write an intelligent ...
COMMENTARY: April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the election as pope of one of the most consequential ecclesial figures of the last 75 years. Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful ...
Cultural competency is not enough for palliative medicine to build trust and offer good deaths to all, write Jamilla Akhter Hussain , Rekha Vijayshankar , and Mary Hodgson Death, dying, and grief are ...
Jan Turner, left, sits with her mother Ruth Patty, age 103. Jan takes cares of her mother at her home in Greenfield. Ruth Patty has a varied and full life as she shares her stories of serving in World ...
When my colleagues and I first started studying humility more than a decade ago, I didn’t really think it would amount to much. It struck me as a relatively uninteresting virtue – if even a virtue at ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jen Cole Wright, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) The default psychological ...