A Profanity-Laden Sermon for White People Who Want to Talk About Race
Encountering the grief of racism in a non-David-Brooks-ian way.
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Were You Born Selfish?: An Interview with Frans de Waal
Both the good and bad in our species come from our primate background, says primatologist Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy.
Read MoreCompassion for AZ Shooter?
Talk of compassion in the wake of the shootings seems like the typical namby-pamby response of religious liberals. Could it be the answer?
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Prophetic Counterterrorism: Avoiding the Insanity of Repeated Failure
The secular world, in confronting evil, has long relied on one solution: the use of coercive power to violently incapacitate those who do evil—often with “collateral damage.” Maybe it’s time to explore other options?
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Ahmadinejad’s Call For “Compassion” is a Cynical Display, Critics Say
As the Iranian president makes a public show of Islamic virtue, it is instructive to look through the eyes of Iran’s most prominent theologians and dissenters, and to recall what actual compassion looks like.
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The “Guilty” AIDS Sufferers
According to Zen, ignorance is the grand-daddy of suffering. That some AIDS victims are “innocent” and some not is not only ignorant, but the antithesis of compassion.
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