As a fan of both TED and theologian Karen Armstrong’s, tomorrow will be a big day for both! TED is helping relaunch the Charter for Compassion. Here’s how it’s going down tomorrow…. Date:  March 22, 2012 Location: Live webcast on Charter for Compassion website and Facebook page Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) [...]

It takes me a long time to drop a grudge. I nurse a grudge until it’s powdery and brittle in my hands, like ancient parchment. Why? Because it is ancient news, yet I want to learn its lessons, I hold on hoping there’s still something to learn from it. However, I’m trying to get better [...]

It’s amazing what inspires us.     What inspires you? Who inspires you? I love to sit in the office chairs of my friends, to see what they have around them, within eyeshot. For instance, I loved that my friend the Rev. Gretchen Seidler Gibbs had photos I had taken of her with her kids, [...]