Three weeks before Lent begins each year, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18:9–14). For Orthodox Christians, this parable, in which a Pharisee ...

“Let’s engage in some radical, beautiful community care and love. Let’s make space for everyone to engage at whatever level they want/need.” So went an open letter in the Oberlin College student ...

There is a big difference between self-righteous people and those that are really righteous. Self-righteous people are sometimes criticized as “Holier than thou.” Many of these people are actually ...

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 ...

Recent research suggests that self-righteousness is bounded, arising more reliably in evaluations of immoral actions than in evaluations of moral actions. Here, we test four implications of this ...

When we think of a narcissistic personality, we usually think of someone who is egocentric, unempathetic, and grandiose. However, there are many different types of people who are driven by the central ...