Karen Armstrong speech at Parliament of World Religions

[Truthseeker]

I am taking a course on Interfaith Dialogue and Collaboration at the Wilmette Institute. This is from unit 1, which is a short unit.

This is the video I liked the best. It tied together all religions, while at the same time emphasized that all religions advocated not just inner peace for ourselves, but faith in action and deed. This would be a good strategy for interfaith dialogue with people of other religions. I bookmarked the talk for later reference. You might do the same thing.

I have heard of Karen Armstrong before. I heard she wrote a sympathetic biography of Muhammad, and more recently I heard she wrote A History of God, which traces religious history from the time of Abraham to the present. I just looked up all the books she wrote, and the number is staggering. Look up the books she wrote yourself. Maybe you'll want to buy one.

In the future I will continue to share with you what I have learned.

 

[loverofhumanity]

I am taking a course on Interfaith Dialogue and Collaboration at the Wilmette Institute. This is from unit 1, which is a short unit.

This is the video I liked the best. It tied together all religions, while at the same time emphasized that all religions advocated not just inner peace for ourselves, but faith in action and deed. This would be a good strategy for interfaith dialogue with people of other religions. I bookmarked the talk for later reference. You might do the same thing.

I have heard of Karen Armstrong before. I heard she wrote a sympathetic biography of Muhammad, and more recently I heard she wrote A History of God, which traces religious history from the time of Abraham to the present. I just looked up all the books she wrote, and the number is staggering. Look up the books she wrote yourself. Maybe you'll want to buy one.

In the future I will continue to share with you what I have learned.

I’ve bought just about all her books on kindle. I adore her. I still can’t figure her out. I’m sure she is a Baha’i isn’t she? If she’s not officially then she is spiritually. She is one of those gems promoting love and understanding between religions and east and west. I love her and consider her a precious, precious human being, the salt of human beings.

She spoke up in her book on Muhammad against prejudices targeting Muslims. What a saint and true lady she is. I hope Baha’u’llah blesses her eternally. I’ll never be as good a Baha’i as she is although she isn’t one by name to my knowledge. God bless her awesome loving compassionate soul.

 

[Truthseeker]

I’ve bought just about all her books on kindle. I adore her. I still can’t figure her out. I’m sure she is a Baha’i isn’t she? If she’s not officially then she is spiritually. She is one of those gems promoting love and understanding between religions and east and west. I love her and consider her a precious, precious human being, the salt of human beings.

She spoke up in her book on Muhammad against prejudices targeting Muslims. What a saint and true lady she is. I hope Baha’u’llah blesses her eternally. I’ll never be as good a Baha’i as she is although she isn’t one by name to my knowledge. God bless her awesome loving compassionate soul.

Karen Armstrong OBE FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.[1] A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, while in the convent and majored in English. She left the convent in 1969.[1] Her work focuses on commonalities of the major religions, such as the importance of compassion and the Golden Rule.

Armstrong received the US$100,000 TED Prize in February 2008. She used that occasion to call for the creation of a Charter for Compassion, which was unveiled the following year...

Armstrong was described by philosopher Alain de Botton as "one of the most intelligent contemporary defenders of religion", who "wages a vigorous war on the twin evils of religious fundamentalism and militant atheism".[34] The Washington Post referred to her as "a prominent and prolific religious historian".[35] Laura Miller of Salon described her as "arguably the most lucid, wide-ranging and consistently interesting religion writer today".[36] Juan Eduardo Campo, author of the Encyclopedia of Islam (2009), included Armstrong among a group of scholars who currently conveyed a "more or less objective", as opposed to polemical, view of Islam and its origins to a wide public.[37] After the September 11 attacks she was in great demand as a lecturer, pleading for inter-faith dialogue.

Karen Armstrong - Wikipedia

I think I need to read her books on Muhammad and the Buddha especially, but I've got all these books lying around my house that I haven't read yet. I used to read a lot, but now I seem to spend most of time on the internet.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I am taking a course on Interfaith Dialogue and Collaboration at the Wilmette Institute. This is from unit 1, which is a short unit.

This is the video I liked the best. It tied together all religions, while at the same time emphasized that all religions advocated not just inner peace for ourselves, but faith in action and deed. This would be a good strategy for interfaith dialogue with people of other religions. I bookmarked the talk for later reference. You might do the same thing.

I have heard of Karen Armstrong before. I heard she wrote a sympathetic biography of Muhammad, and more recently I heard she wrote A History of God, which traces religious history from the time of Abraham to the present. I just looked up all the books she wrote, and the number is staggering. Look up the books she wrote yourself. Maybe you'll want to buy one.

In the future I will continue to share with you what I have learned.

I have her, Islam: A Short History - wouldn't like to read the long version. But it tends to show the same mess that most other religions went through - which wasn't a surprise. Although I can't say I have read it thoroughly - like so many books these days - since the interest tends to wane rather quickly.

 

[Truthseeker]

I have her, Islam: A Short History - wouldn't like to read the long version. But it tends to show the same mess that most other religions went through - which wasn't a surprise. Although I can't say I have read it thoroughly - like so many books these days - since the interest tends to wane rather quickly.

Strictly speaking, you're not supposed to post in the Baha'i dir. But I appreciate your comments. Yes, Islam degenerated over time.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Strictly speaking, you're not supposed to post in the Baha'i dir. But I appreciate your comments. Yes, Islam degenerated over time.

My apologies.

 

[Truthseeker]

My apologies.

It was my fault to start this thread here. I now have almost the same thing under interfaith discussion