Karen Armstrong Mission, Charter fo... Nov 19, 2009
Karen Armstrong Mission, Charter for Compassion. Karen Armstrong Mission, Charter for Compassion ... The Charter for Compassion, a global spiritual initiative conceived of by Karen Armstrong, embodies the wisdom and hope of religious and secular individuals worldwide. (Suite101.com)
Call to bring faiths together Nov 15, 2009
The charter itself is the brainchild of former Catholic nun Karen Armstrong, who left the convent to study literature at Oxford University and has since written 20 books promoting interfaith dialogue. Join the conversation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Compassion, as the youth sees it Nov 12, 2009
British author Karen Armstrong, who won the award in 2008, wanted help in creating, launching and propagating the Charter For Compassion. It is an effort to put forth compassion as a core value at the centre of religious, moral and political life. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Editors notes: So, where do we go from here? Nov 12, 2009
Karen Armstrong writes in her book A History of God that throughout history people have always created new symbols to act as a focus for spirituality. Human beings have always created a faith for themselves, to cultivate their sense of the wonder and ineffable significance of life. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Can compassion unite faiths? Nov 11, 2009
By Karen Armstrong and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Special to CNN ... Karen Armstrong's wish upon winning TED prize was for a charter for compassion ... Editor's note: Karen Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who has written more than 20 books about common themes in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, including "The Bible: A Biography." She received the 2008 TED Prize. (CNN)
Book of the Week: "The Case for God" Oct 24, 2009
Karen Armstrong, once a nun and now a TED prizewinner, argues that it is the actions, rather than the doctrine, that have constituted "religion" for most of its history, and she effectively let me off the hook. If what people do with their religion (rather than what they say about it) is "God," then that's a God I can believe in. (Slate)
Karen Armstrong on the Case for God Oct 20, 2009
Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religion, including A History of God, Islam: A Short History, and, most recently, The Case for God ... If only these politicians knew the TRUE meaning of their respective theologies, as Karen Armstrong postulates, all would be well ... " This is extremely distressing in my opinion, and a danger to our democracy, which she insists is compatible with religion. How can one have freedom if some insist on laws based on their particular religious... (Slate)
We need to sign up to a charter for compassion Oct 13, 2009
KAREN ARMSTRONG AND DESMOND TUTU ... Karen Armstrong is a religious historian and former Catholic nun whose book Through the Narrow Gate about her seven years in a convent angered and challenged Catholics worldwide ... Karen Armstrong lives in an ecumenical and academic bubble, but I doubt strongly whether she has not had second thoughts or 'cognitive dissonance' over her statements on Islam. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Whales are overrated Oct 13, 2009
Karen Armstrong and Desmond Tutu have written on the topic of compassion. True compassion requires mindfulness, sufficient mindfulness to think through the consequences of one's actions. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Obstacles to peace: Jerusalem Oct 10, 2009
Religious writer Karen Armstrong has observed that those who held it longest are those who showed the most tolerance to devotees of other faiths ... History has yet to decide if Israeli rule over the city is a doomed enterprise that will founder - on Karen Armstrong's analysis - because of the very measures taken to make Jerusalem Israel's "eternal and indivisible" capital. (BBC News -- Africa)
Daily television listings Oct 9, 2009
Authors Nick Hornby ( Juliet, Naked ) and Karen Armstrong ( The Case for God ). Jimmy Kimmel Live at 12:05 a.m. on Chs. (Boston Globe)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers Oct 1 / Oct 5, 2009
THE CASE FOR GOD, by Karen Armstrong Knopf; 432 pages; $27. 95). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Books: A history of Christianity Sep 18, 2009
Karen Armstrong is a good blender, which has made her a successful ambassador of religion in a generally irreligious age. In over a dozen books she has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organised belief. (The Economist)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by Karen Armstrong (Knopf). The popular religion scholar (and former nun) shares her beliefs. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Brothers, be just to your sisters Aug 2, 2009
As Karen Armstrong said in her public lecture here two years ago, we have become so obsessed about being right in our doctrine, instead of being just in our practice. No amount of explaining that Syariah caning is not supposed to cause injury, it is moderate, the caning officer is not supposed to lift his arm above his shoulder is going to take away the pain and humiliation of such a cruel and degrading treatment. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
IN HOSPITALS: Alternative medicine meets mainstream Jul 31, 2009
Bonnie Tarantino, left, and nurse Donna Audia, center, perform Reiki on a patient as his mother Joyce Armstrong, back left, and wife, Karen Armstrong, right, hold his hands at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in Baltimore, Oct. 24. HEALTH UPDATES ON TWITTER. (USA Today -- News)
Do Shamans Have More Sex? Jul 30, 2009
You see traces of it even in such serious scholars as Karen Armstrong, who wrote in that early Abrahamic religion had created a gulf "between humanity and the divine, rupturing the holistic vision of paganism.". As the author of the just-published book , about the history of religion, I'm primed to do some debunking. (Slate)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Religion, stuck between a rock and a hard place Jul 26, 2009
Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion who has become distressed by the tone of recent discussions of the subject. Her targets are religious fundamentalism on the one hand and militant atheism on the other: in other words, al-Qaeda as well as Richard Dawkins. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene Jun 18, 2009
The fall cultural studies series will include the premiere screening of "The Botany of Desire" on Sept. 16, with author Michael Pollan and filmmaker Michael Schwartz; theological writer Karen Armstrong on Sept. 24; "Late, Late Show" host Ferguson on Sept. 25 (at the Palace of Fine Arts); author Amitav Ghosh on Oct. 7; journalists Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer on Oct. 13; Shawn, Oct. 15; Eric Schlosser, Nov. 3; Wendell Berry in conversation with Pollan, Nov. 4; George Packer, Nov. 12; and Hendrik... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Charleston students receive awards at honors night May 15, 2009
The top 10 students were Karen Armstrong, Taylor Bartlett, Clinton Bays, Todd Bollinger, Lena Elmuti, Ashlyn Hite, Jonathon Jones, Kevin Looby, Stacia Macy and Jared Switzer ... - French Student of the Year, Academic, Zoe Corso, Karen Armstrong ... -State Scholars/Merit Recognition, Kaci Abolt, Karen Armstrong, Clinton Bays, Todd Bollinger, Olivia Ebinger, Samantha Garcia, Seth Goeckner, Ashlyn Hite, Jonathon Jones, Stacia Macy, Matthew McElwee, Taylor Adams, Taylor Bartlett, Kathleen Benson,... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'Harry Potter' among those missing from e-library Apr 30, 2009
"Publishers get a huge profit, more on e-books than on anything else," says Timothy Knowlton, CEO of Curtis Brown Ltd., where authors include business writer Jim Collins (whose "Good to Great" is unavailable as an e-book) and religious scholar Karen Armstrong (whose recent work can be downloaded). "From my perspective, that's patently unfair and it's going to backfire on the publishers who insist upon it.". (USA Today -- Tech)
New Television-Web Series "Global Spirit" Explores Spirituality, Religion and the Science of Belief as Practiced Worldwide, premiering April Apr 6, 2009
"Global Spirit" premieres on Sunday, April 12 at 6:00pm PT/9:00pm ET with its first original program "The Spiritual Quest," featuring acclaimed comparative religion author Karen Armstrong and professor of Buddhist studies Dr. Robert Thurman ... Each "Global Spirit" episode offers compelling film segments with original, on-location footage shot by the "Global Spirit" crew, together with engaging, in-depth conversations between host Phil Cousineau and a diverse set of experts such as Karen... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
LETTER: Save innocent babies, rather than whales Feb 20, 2009
Something that Karen Armstrong realized in her book about the Axial Age, "The Great Transformation, The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions" the founders of the worlds Great Religions and the Greek Philosophers discovered the same thing, "What mattered was not what you believed but how you behaved." " The Question wrote on Feb 19, 2009 8:18 PM:" " Isn't anyone going to stick up for the whales? "----I'm sure St. Francis would have. And he'd have been right. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
It's humans who confuse the message Feb 18, 2009
Karen Armstrong, an English scholar of religions, tells a story. Solomon Grayzel, A History of the Jews, and a book on the Talmud have a similar tale. (Longview Daily News, WA)
LETTERS: The Californian, Feb. 13, 2009 Feb 13, 2009
" .The Jan. 28 Californian reports the story of the Australian man who threw his 4-year-old daughter off a 190-foot high bridge ---- while her brother and sister sat in the car .So, I ask all of you: Where was your God for those two little girls? And for the countless others we hear about from time to time ---- and the others we never hear about?To paraphrase author Karen Armstrong, if God saw these things and chose not to prevent them, he is a monster and unworthy of worship. If he saw them and... (North County Times)
