Time for religion to be a force for good - - The Washington Post
Two years ago we launched the Charter for Compassion and yet the people who have come forward to help us have not been religious leaders but business men and women. This is great, because business...
View Article9/11 event focuses on Charter of Compassion
The Naperville Interfaith Leadership Association will make a call for compassion while remembering the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy on the 10th anniversary Sunday. The association will honor and remember...
View ArticleA Compassionate Future: An Interview with Karen Armstrong
Three and half years ago, religious thinker and author Karen Armstrong created a Charter for Compassion, a document that sought to activate the Golden Rule around the world and restore the principle of...
View ArticleBasalt Police Chief Roderick O'Connor
An interview with Basalt, Colorado's Police Chief, Roderick O'Connor about compassion, Basalt as a Compassionate City, police work, and the future of the Int...See it on Scoop.it, via Charter for...
View ArticleNorthwest Herald | “12 Steps to a Compassionate Life”group planned
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Woodstock is launching a new discussion group based on the book 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life, by British writer and former nun Karen Armstrong. Armstrong...
View ArticleInstitutionalizing compassion in Great Barrington
Living by the Golden Rule -- easier said than done. So a long-time resident is on the march to do something about it by having the town designated as a compassionate city, which essentially means the...
View ArticleBasalt Activist Adrianna Torres - Compassionate Basalt.
Adrianna Torres is an activist for the Latino community in Basalt, Colorado USA. In this video, she talks about her experience and the experience of her community in their relationship to Compassionate...
View ArticleTalk about compassion
This training is a part of the International Campaign for Compassionate Cities movement. This past March, Basalt became the second global Compassionate City. Currently there are six confirmed...
View ArticleSpalding University » Spalding Named Nation’s First Compassionate University...
The Compassionate Action Network reports the following, “Spalding University, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is the first university in the world to be designated a “Compassionate University” by the...
View ArticleWhat is compassion? | The International Institute for Compassionate Cities
There’s some confusion about just what compassion is. I was recently at a gathering where compassionate action was being discussed with intensity and seriousness. I noticed that some of the ideas for...
View Article12 Days of Compassion - Simon Fraser University | Study + Practice of Dialogue
Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue will host a citywide conversation on compassion with world-renowned author Karen Armstrong for the 12-day period March 19–30, 2012.SFU will present...
View ArticleSouth Brunswick Public Library Blog: Charter for Compassion
There is a movement in this country to learn compassion for those around you, near and far. South Brunswick is joining this movement with a series of Cultural Community Conversations which was started...
View ArticleReading of Charter for Compassion - Opening 100 Thousand Poets for Change,...
"The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work...
View ArticleKaren Armstrong returns to Vancouver, fighting for compassion | Vancouver Sun
SFU is bringing the world’s leading author on religions to Vancouver in mid-March for a remarkable series of events focussed on compassion. I’ll use this blog to try to keep you informed about them as...
View ArticleBuilding Common Ground with Compassion | Keene Public Library
The Keene Public Library will be hosting a special reading group to study Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. The first meeting of the group will be held Tuesday Feb. 28 at 7 p.m....
View ArticleKaren Armstrong's Charter for Compassion
Author Karen Armstrong has called on people around the world to collaborate on the writing of a "Charter for Compassion" centered on the Golden Rule. She's hoping the effort will restore compassionate...
View ArticleNew Charter for Compassion Website
The Charter for Compassion is an open and collaborative effort. In Fall 2008, people of all nations, all faiths, all backgrounds, submitted their own words for inclusion in the Charter.See it on...
View ArticleKaren Armstrong Launches New Hub for Global Charter for Compassion Movement
-Presents International Call to Action --Revamped CharterForCompassion.org Will Feature News, Stories from Around the World, and Activism Resources Karen Armstrong, the world-renowned religious...
View ArticleCharter For Compassion Makes Surprising Progress
When the Charter for Compassion was launched in November 2009, I didn't know that by 2012 more than 85,000 people would have affirmed it online or that we would have 150 active partners around the...
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