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• The Charter for Compassion

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 437
  My religion is compassion. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama A call to bring the world together… The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and ...
  2 days ago

• Karen Armstrong - Think Again: God

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 437
  Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God , The Case for God , and many other books and instigator and co-author of the Charter for Compassion , has become much more vocal of late in our defense of faith and religion. Here, from Foreign Policy , is a new article in which she addresses the refutations of ...
  2 days ago

• Special snowflakes sure do kill a lot of innocent people

  
  Gravity's Rainbow — Authority: 418
  From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam : The Jews have often been criticized for their belief that they are the Chosen People, but their critics have often been guilty of the same kind of denial that fueled the diatribes against idolatry in biblical times. ...
  3 days ago

• Contemporary Lectio Divina

  
  Magic of the Ordinary — Authority: 115
  Over the weekend, between bouts of sunburnt gardening, I finally got around to reading Karen Armstrong’s autobiography The Spiral Staircase. It was as glorious as the sun on my back and as strong as the pugnacious weeds the landlord insisted I remove. Just a couple of my favourite passages:Ms Armstrong on solitude ...
  4 days ago

• Troy Jollimore on Karen Armstrong’s ‘The Case for God’

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 725
  Have nonbelievers misunderstood, even as they have mocked, the very concept of God—a concept that has more to do with practice than belief? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries December 2, 2009 Larry’s List: West Point Hangover Edition November 30, 2009 Addicted to Nonsense
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• TED and Compassion, India-Pakistan joint defence, Zardari and conspiracies

  
  Journeys to democracy — Authority: 109
  Several links and news items I’ve been wanting to share and finally managed to compile – as well as a belated bit of good news and congratulations to Dr Hassan Abbas, a journalist and then police officer in Lahore before becoming an academic and blogger at Watandost . He has been selected for the QAU Chair at ...
  1 week ago

• But that didn’t stop murder in the name of God

  
  Gravity's Rainbow — Authority: 418
  From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam : Despite it’s otherworldliness, religion is highly pragmatic.  We shall see that it is far more important for a particular idea of God to work than for it to be logically or scientifically sound.  As soon as it ...
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• You’re Wrong Thomas Friedman

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 138
  A less polite me would say “Really, Thom Friedman? Just STFU because your latest column is the biggest load of BS on the internet this week.” So thank you Glenn Greenwald for taking Friedman to task : In a very rare moment of candor for this rank war-loving propagandist, he announced very clearly the real ...
  1 week ago

• Karen Armstrong, the mother of ‘compassionate’ crackpots…

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 552
  Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna, cross-posted on Moe’s Jihad WatchKoran Armstrong rolls the Islamic turd in glitter, once again….Most people who followed George W. Bush’s seven-year...
  2 weeks ago

• Compassion Charter: ‘Dethrone yourself from the center of your world’

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 655
  On Nov. 12, attendees of the National Council of Churches’ General Assembly in Minneapolis — like people around the world that day — read “ The Compassion Charter ,” a new declaration created collaboratively by leaders from the three Abrahamic religions to highlight a central tenet in world faiths: The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Charter for Compassion

  
  PamBG's Blog — Authority: 106
  An Episcopalian priest here in town has just pointed me to the website http://charterforcompassion.org The websites introduction reads: "On February 28, 2008 Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. Since that day, thousands of people ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your Thanksgiving Doesn’t have to be a Turkey!

  
  Ohio Family Law Blog — Authority: 449
  Karen Armstrong, a human development extension agent with North Dakota State University, posted an excellent Thanksgiving piece two years ago. Her suggestions and insights bear repeating. Plus, I liked her Thanksgiving Quiz!  She was kind enough to allow me to republish it. The holiday season can be stressful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Compassion

  
  Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life — Authority: 128
  What does it mean?  It means to be sympathetic or empathic of anothers condition, be it pain and suffering, deep emotions, problems - and to do something about it. This week, author Karen Armstrong ("A History of God" and other books) made her compassion for others come alive.  She gave a talk, answering the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discuss the Charter with Karen Armstrong – November 19

  
  Ismaili Mail — Authority: 513
  Karen Armstrong will be hosting a live discussion about the Charter and its implications TODAY, 11/19, from 5-6 pm EST on the Charter’s Facebook page . What do you want to ask Karen ? Join live or post questions ahead of time in our Discussion group. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charter-for-Compassion/ ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rethinking God

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 138
  From Karen Armstrong’s Foreign Policy piece: Think Again: God : Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus. As soon as we became recognizably human, men and women started to create religions. We are meaning-seeking creatures. While dogs, as far as we know, do not worry about the canine condition or agonize about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Charter for Compassion

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 511
  TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong’s wish is realized as the Charter for Compassion officially launches her video, a two minute documentary created by thousands of people around the world. Although short and sweet, the message given in the video opens doors to a new dialog between the major religions and between ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Charter for Compassion: simple kind-hearted affirmation of others

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 477
  Karen Armstrong’s “ Charter for Compassion ” is a new and eloquent re-affirmation of the golden rule. Her Charter is not based upon any particular religious tradition. Rather, it is based on the recognition that compassion (the golden rule) is the centerpiece for all worthy moral systems. Armstrong , formerly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mad for Compassion

  
  Magic of the Ordinary — Authority: 115
  I have of course been following and helping the viral spread of the Charter for Compassion. I am continuing to send it around to many different folk and groups. Response has been wonderful: people have linked it on their Facebook accounts, on their blogs, put it on email lists etc. THANK YOU ALL I [...]
  3 weeks ago

• The Charter for Compassion: Karen Armstrongs Vision

  
  One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone — Authority: 471
  by Jon Rubinstein Ive been writing elsewhere about the Charter for Compassion which launched on November 12. The Charter is the fulfillment of Karen Armstrong s 2008 Ted prize and comes from Armstrongs observation that every religion, without exception, shares a central tenet : "TheCharter will proclaim ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Would Jesus Respond to the Charter for Compassion?: John Barry Weighs In

  
  Flirting with Faith — Authority: 412
  This is the second in a series of guest posts from Christian scholars and thinkers regarding what Jesus might have made of the Charter for Compassion developed in response to religious scholar and TED Prize winner Karen Armstrongs wish to develop a way for people of different faiths across the world to unite ...
  3 weeks ago

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