I'm sure sometimes people wonder, why do I do that? Because, after all, they have prepared over a period of time and they're dressed up in their confirmation robes and everybody's here to celebrate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. Among the many threats to decision making, few are as ...

About Christian confirmation, a sacrament or rite of passage in which a baptised person strengthens their relationship with God and becomes a full member of the Christian community. Confirmation ...

Working in a Catholic mentoring organization for almost a decade, I have been interested in the idea of rites of passage for years. Simply put, all societies throughout time have had specific cultural ...

Of the many cognitive biases that cloud our decision making, one that business leaders need to be particularly vigilant against is confirmation bias. Confirmation bias refers to our tendency to ...

“I do love Shakespeare, and Shakespeare would love this,” sighs Senator Alan K. Simpson in HBO's Confirmation, surveying embattled would-be Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas -- who's currently ...

MUNDELEIN, Ill.(CNA) — Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, N.D., in a recent lecture, examined the sacrament of confirmation and explained his reasons for believing children should receive it before ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for data that can confirm our beliefs, as opposed to looking for data that might challenge those beliefs. The bias degrades our judgments when our initial ...

Modernity, it was once thought, wreaked havoc with religious tradition, rendering centuries-old rituals obsolete. We now know better. Modernity has not only made room for tradition, it has even given ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump threw doubt on Wednesday on the confirmation of his nominee to become the nation's top spy, Jay Clayton, ordering its delay in an effort to force Congress to pass a strict ...