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can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living


to reclaiming the prophetic tradition and working with multi-faith partners to build a society of equity and equality, compassion and justice.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

As a result, the West would eventually destroy itself, a position that was easy to understand after the First World War, which could be seen as the collective suicide of Europe. Muslims therefore had a vital mission to witness to the divine dimension of life, not by retiring from the world to engage in contemplation, but by an activism that
... See moreKaren Armstrong • Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 2)
This was the primordial faith that had been preached to the whole of humanity by the prophets of the past.
Karen Armstrong • Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 2)
the mythic premises of a religion are systematized, beneath the stern and intelligent eyes of an orthodox dogmatism, into a fixed sum of historical events;