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Compassion
guardian.co.uk Society:
Nick Cohen suggests that Nacro, the crime reduction charity, no longer criticises government policy because it "has become dependent on the state" ("How the government buys the silence of charities", Comment). He argues that (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The way we treat people with dementia suggests we're a long way from being the caring country we claim to beEven after last week's storms, a praetorian handful of leaves still gamely cling to the lower branches of the oak in (Read More)
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Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition a (Read More)
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Clare Clark on a tangled family webMaya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental film-ma (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midn (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
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A book lover's guide to building a brilliant children's libraryNo 52 Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (1948)Here we are at last, ensconced in the very last Book Corner (or at least, the last official Book Corner – a se (Read More)
The Guardian:
The Anglican church should no longer put the virtue of uniformity above the need to challenge prejudice and suffering"United we stand, divided we fall" is a common saying. Likewise there is a Japanese proverb "A single arrow (Read More)
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washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
I don't often agree with Charles Krauthammer, but his Nov. 13 op-ed column, "Medicalizing mass murder," was right-on. Maj. Nidal Hasan's "shooting up a room of American soldiers" at Fort Hood was clearly an act of Islamist fa (Read More)
Huffington Post:
It turns out that one of the most basic things we all learned aschildren — treat others how you’d like to be treated, the Golden Rule —is the most powerful idea in the world.The idea is so important,says scholar of religion a (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Recently I blogged about Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion, an attempt to rally both the interfaith and secular communities around a unifying concept. Today I want to talk about an extraordinary book that builds on th (Read More)
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Crooks and Liars:
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Boing Boing:
Bonnoe says: "The folks at the TED Prize have been working with partners around the world to fulfill the wish of best-selling author and former nun, Karen Armstrong – the Charter for Compassion. The Charter is a document coll (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Rafael Nadal talks about the personal and physical problems that have disrupted his season as he prepares to head to London for the ATP Tour World FinalsIn a discreet corner of an elegant hotel in Paris, Rafael Nadal remember (Read More)
Huffington Post:
In the Hebrew Scriptures, God grants King Solomon "a wise and discerning mind," so that he would have "discernment in dispensing justice." (1 Kings 3:16-28)What follows from there is a complex story of two women, mothers of t (Read More)
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