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Learning Humility

A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue

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Outreach Resource of the Year, Spiritual Growth

In a society where raging narcissism dominates the moral landscape, the virtue of humility is often dismissed as irrelevant. Not only is humility vanishing from contemporary culture, but we are also witnessing how destructive a lack of humility has become among our churches and ministry leaders. And yet, Richard Foster, the founder of Renovaré, insists that humility is central to the journey toward character formation and spiritual transformation. For this reason he decided to spend a year studying the virtue of humility.

Using the Lakota calendar as a framework, Foster provides us with a look into the insights he gathered from sources ranging from Native American culture to Julian of Norwich to Scripture to personal friends. By engaging with both the spiritual classics and Foster's own experiences, Learning Humility provides profound insight into what humility can look like in our current cultural climate.

Join Richard Foster on the journey toward a life of humility, which he says leads us into "freedom, joy, and holy hilarity."

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 3, 2022
      Foster (A Year with God), founder of the Christian educational nonprofit Renovaré, touts the merits of humility in this meditative outing. Foster decided to “learn about humility by study and experience” and shares the musings he recorded in his journal over the course of a year following the Lakota Moon calendar, chosen because of its “close connection to the earth.” The wide-ranging entries reflect the author’s wandering curiosity, with considerations of the 12 Lakota virtues (of which humility is the first) appearing alongside an account of a snowy day and a chronicle of humility’s rise from “pejorative” usage in the Hellenistic world to its exaltation by Jesus. Foster also ponders works by Benedict of Nursia, Julian of Norwich, and Andrew Murray, in addition to unpacking scripture, such as when he examines nine biblical translations of Paul proclaiming his humility before God. The author’s discursive writing features its share of wisdom (“We need to experience humility’s... strength to undermine pride and ultimately free us from it”), but some readers may be frustrated by the rambling presentation, as well as the frequent and inconclusive tangents (“Can flowers be humble? I don’t know, I’m just wondering”). Still, these earnest reflections capture a sharp mind at work.

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