After last week’s column, I received a request to write about righteousness. Righteousness is an important attribute for some major religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and ...

In our previous column, we explored righteousness as God’s unwavering standard for building just and right “equable” relationships — between us and God, and with all creation. Righteousness, in simple ...

Religion has faced an on-going struggle between righteous and self-righteous behavior. Fear or a sense of superiority has too often turned one’s religious practice from righteousness to ...

In our studies, we have seen that the testing of our faith produces. Well faith also obeys. “Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath ...

Investigating the literature on this subject yields a teasingly twofold result. Traditionally, the two personality categories have been examined in a predominately theological light. They’re now, ...

In both instances, self-righteousness emerges as more culpable, or less to be respected, than righteousness. Still, if these two existential stances are viewed through the lens of contemporary moral ...