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Karen Armstrong — Freelance Monotheism

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Practice Over Ideas

Karen Armstrong: Jesus was deeply embedded in the Jewish world. She says he taught a version of Hillel's golden rule, do unto others as you had have done unto you. Many of his sayings resonate with the sayings of the great rabbis of this time or that you'll find in the Talmud," she says. "I could see what my own Catholic tradition had been trying to do at its best once you saw it in the context of these other faiths"

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