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Arrogance is all around us: political polarization, exploitive leaders, societal unrest and injustice, escalating conflict, and burnout in the workplace. Yet, in an increasingly polarized world, where arrogance and certainty seem to reign, some leaders are quietly practicing another approach: intellectual humility.

Sung Joon Jang and Byron R. Johnson, both from Baylor University, turn the spotlight on the relevance of human flourishing to offender rehabilitation in Colombia and South Africa.

In this fifth and final article in this series, Peter C. Hill discusses bridging the cultural divide in social discourse, mainly practicing intellectual humility in the real world.

France's education minister announced a policy change enforcing ban on abayas, loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by certain Muslim women, within the country's state-run schools.

From empiricist to causal molecular understanding of life and back: Historical reflections on 19th and 21st-century epistemologies in biology The German American physiologist and experimental biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) was one of the most vigorous promoters of biology as an experimental science in the 19th century. Influenced by the physicist...

Byron R. Johnson and Sung Joon Jang from the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University explore the correlation between religious involvement and human flourishing for those in offender rehabilitation.

Nancy La Vigne PhD, Director of the National Institute of Justice, shares perspectives on how the Institute advances justice across the nation and beyond, strengthening the scientific tools and discoveries that support justice system stakeholders.

In this fourth of a five-article series in Open Access Government on the topic of intellectual humility (IH), Peter C. Hill explores the challenges associated with practising IH with deeply held religious beliefs.

Byron R. Johnson and Sung Joon Jang share key challenges affecting America’s prison system, the prison seminary movement and the positive impact that faith-based programmes can have.

Some of the U.S. Department of Justice’s work, including a look at the federal prison system, is assessed here by Open Access Government.

Byron R. Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University Visiting Scholar & Co-Executive Director Center for Faith and the Common Good Pepperdine University byron.johnson@pepperdine.edu www.pepperdine.edu/center-for-faith-common-good/ He is the founding director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) as well as director...

Sung Joon Jang is Research Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior within the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University Visiting Scholar Center for Faith and the Common Good Pepperdine University sungjoon.jang@pepperdine.edu www.pepperdine.edu/center-for-faith-common-good/ Before joining Baylor University, Jang held appointments at Ohio State University and Louisiana State University. His...

In this third of a five-article series in Open Access Government on the topic of intellectual humility (IH), Peter C. Hill explores why political attitudes have created a cultural divide that makes it difficult for many to be intellectually humble.

Here, Professor Masahide Sakamoto uses Japanese pollution research as a case study for thinking about and understanding how to create a sustainable society.

Kazunobu Horiuchi, M.A. (University of Southern California in religion and social ethics), while serving as the Vice President for Student Affairs and International Liaison, is a specially appointed professor at Reitaku University, where he teaches undergraduate courses in Studies in American Society, Japanese religious history in English to international...

The proposal to make menopause leave a ‘protected characteristic’ under the Equality Act has been blocked by ministers in an effort to prevent discrimination towards men.

Hate crimes in the United States have increased in frequency in recent years, however, legislation protecting victims is limited across many states.

Only in the past decade or so have social scientists seriously studied intellectual humility as a virtue that might counter problems with this alarming social trend toward division Colonel Jessup—you may not remember the name, but some of you will know whom we are talking about. He is the fictional...

In the second part of the discussion of bridging the cultural divide in social discourse, Peter C. Hill at Biola University looks at intellectual humility with consideration to one’s convictions.

Black history in schools continues to be increasingly vital, as decolonising education and improving representation gives students a broader, more honest curriculum delving into systemic inequality.