Today SEDGE presents Advent to Compassion, with two provocative thinkers on religion, politics, and compassion. On this week when astronomers have calculated all the star light in the heavens, we start the season of carrying the light with two blazing thinkers.
ELAINE PAGELS, whose landmark book, The Gnostic Gospels, set forth the philosophical underpinings of the tradtional four Gospels, and allowed women to participate fully in sacred rites.
KAREN ARMSTRONG, whose A History of God, and other books explicate Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism, illuminate the history and develop of religions. Her time in a convent and now as a scholar, convince her the core value of all religions is compassion, whether it is regularly practiced or not.
Insight abounds, along with a forgivable pun.