This weekend, Christians worldwide will celebrate Palm Sunday, the first of many milestones of Holy Week, the period leading up to Easter and Jesus’ resurrection. This is the Sunday that celebrates ...

Three times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Saturdays and features artist Donald Clegg, of Spokane; retired Methodist ...

“Downton Abbey,” “Upstairs-Downstairs,” “Gosfield Park” and most recently the HBO series “The Gilded Age” all share a similar setting of the upper class and lower class structures of particular ...

Carina Chocano wrote a timely column earlier this year titled, “Laying Low,” her premise being that we have lost the virtue of humility in our society. The loss has been so complete, per Chocano, that ...

The gentle will be blessed with inheriting the Earth; the merciful receive mercy; the peacemaker is called a son of God (Matthew 5:5-9). These states of being require humility — lowering one’s ...

“While pride and pushy ways might win some temporary gains (Prov 16:19), the Lord will tear down the house of the proud (Prov 15:25). Whatever his name may be, God calls him ‘Proud,’ ‘Haughty,’ and ...

I was reminded again on Thursday night at our church’s Maundy Thursday service about humility and obedience. As part of the traditional service, we not only take part in communion, but have a ...