Pride Leads to Trouble

We Americans generally want to think of ourselves as good people. That, in many respects, is where the trouble begins.

Defects of Character

The Lord sometimes leaves in us some defects of character in order that we should learn humility. For without them we would immediately soar above the ...

Marriage Myth

Myth: If two people are in love, their differences are unimportant.

Reality: If differences are dismissed or evaded, each person's right to be different ...

Someone in Your Corner

I'll be sashaying along through life, feeling pretty cocky, when something will jolt me back into a sense of my neediness--my need for my husband. ...

Benefits of Marriage

In this age, when we run from reliance on others and celebrate our own (ultimately futile) autonomy, it's nice to sometimes say, "I'm sad. ...

Advice for a President

When Harry Truman was thrust into the presidency, by the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn took him aside.

"From here on out, you're going ...

The Lucky Plumber's Son

Executive consultant Richard Hagberg told this story:

The head of one large company recently told me about an incident that occurred as he and his wife ...

What Direction Are We Growing?

The focus of health in the soul is humility, while the root of inward corruption is pride. In the spiritual life, nothing stands still. If we are not ...

Christianity and Humanism

During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable ...

Beyond the Bottom Line

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. ... The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and ...