I would like to argue against Keith Gallagher’s idea (in his June 21 letter to the editor, "Will Corvallis Library celebrate humility?") that humility is the opposite of pride. It seems to me that ...

From Augustine to Catherine of Siena, the Christian tradition has seen pride as the root of all sin — the self exalting itself above the Creator. It was not until the dawn of the modern age, which in ...