Have you heard about the Charter for Compassion? It is the result of Karen’s Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize wish and was unveiled on November 12, 2009. Join the first anniversary live webcast event on November 18th!

This autumn a six-hour television series, a co-production of American Experience and Frontline, aired on PBS. It was an extraordinary look at the intersection of religion and public life in America, from the first European settlements to the 2008 presidential election. Gratefully, the full program – God in America – is available online for viewers to watch at their own pace.

WHEN I was a boy in Tibet, I felt that my own Buddhist religion must be the best — and that other faiths were somehow inferior. Now I see how naïve I was, and how dangerous the extremes of religious intolerance can be today.

The legislative season just concluding July 31, 2008 at the State House in Massachusetts produced a bumper crop of new environmental legislation. Five different bills passed. This is big! Huge, in fact. It represents a fresh and progressive approach that simultaneously addresses conservation, technology – renewable energy, and a green economy. As a newcomer to the environmental advocacy work I stand in awe of what has been accomplished. …