
Karen Armstrong — Freelance Monotheism
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Virtue of Compassion in Religious Traditions
Karan Armstrong has identified compassion as a practical virtue and aspect of moral imagination that unites all the great religious traditions. I wondered how compassion might be more complicated among religious people who have starkly different beliefs. "We don't have to wait for a leader or a prophet to come along, to look at our scriptures," she says.
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