You Think You're Needed?

My older sister surprised us with her wedding announcement. When she asked me to be in the ceremony, I hesitated. "Adelle, you know my coaching responsibilities ...

Not All Composers Make Good Conductors

He wanted to conduct. His conducting style, however, was idiosyncratic. During soft passages he'd crouch extremely low. For loud sections, he'd ...

Pride's Opposite

Paul suggests something striking in his chapter on love: that the opposite of love is not hate, but pride. ... Paul says two things that love is: patient ...

Pride Leads to Trouble

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

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 ...

Perilous Boasting

Trouble always comes whenever we begin to take credit for any of the gifts of the Spirit, be they gifts of prayer, tongues, prophecy, art, science.

A Noisy Horn

A Pharisee's trumpet shall be heard to the end of the town but simplicity walks through the town unseen.

Prideful Deceits

Let's--all of us--decide to stop trying to convince the world that Christianity is true because Jesus makes us prettier, happier, thinner, wealthier, ...