Tag: compassion

Charter for Compassion

by Rory Swensen • November 12, 2009 • 12 Comments

In February, 2008, noted religious author Karen Armstrong was awarded the TED Prize, and her wish for the world was to gather a council of Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and other spiritual leaders to draw up a “Charter for Compassion.”

Compassion for the Unworthy

by Kent Larsen • May 1, 2009 • 55 Comments

Can I remind us of something? The rhetoric here and elsewhere on the bloggernacle, the Internet, and evidently in the personal lives of some of us, seems all too often to be based on the idea that there is a worthiness test for compassion.