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The Great Transformation
Karen Armstrong on compassion as an essential practice of the religions that developed during the Axial Age from 800 - 2000 BCE.
A Call to Compassion
Aura Glaser on cultivating the spiritual practice of compassion.
Walking with God in a Fragile World
Editors James Langford and Leroy S. Rouner's Karen Armstrong essay on the growing importance of compassion in a post-9/11 world.
Who Speaks for God?
Jim Wallis on understanding the true meaning of compassion as seeing the world through the eyes of others.
Hate-Work
A teaching story by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko on compassion (in a book edited by David W. Augsburger).
Everyday Grace
Marianne Williamson on the spiritual practice of compassion through allowing fear and sadness.
Start Where You Are
Pema Chodron on cultivating compassion through the big squeeze of inspiration and real situations that are uncomfortable.
Forgiveness, the Passionate Journey
Flora Slosson Wuellner on Christian forgiveness and the spiritual practice of compassion.
A Spirituality Named Compassion
Matthew Fox on how compassion is the source of renewal for our own lives and for the planet.
Light on Enlightenment
Christopher Titmuss's advice on how to practice compassion when dealing with the pesky demons of praise and blame.