“…It follows, then, that maturity or growth in one’s relationship with God involves not only the cultivation of certain relational virtue or character dispositions (e.g., humility), but also the development of relational postures or capacities with others who are different than oneself (e.g., cultural humility). Accordingly, some of our recent work investigated the longitudinal associations of compassion, social justice, and authoritarianism among future religious leaders (Jankowski, Sandage, et al, 2022) as well as the virtues (i.e., compassion and humility) predictive of social justice and diversity commitments among seminary faculty (Hydinger et al, 2023).…”