The Empathic Civilization & The Age of Empathy
Jeremy Rifkin’s The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis and Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society are truly books for these times. If you read only two books this year, make it these! (If you read three, add Tom Atlee’s Reflections on Evolutionary Activism: Essays, Poems and Prayers From an
read onThe Salvation of Religion: From Beliefs to Knowledge
Much has been written and countless discussions have ensued in recent years about the seemingly inevitible decline of Christianity and rise of secularism in America in the 21st century, which is along the lines of what happened in Europe in the mid 20th century. (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
Thinking and speaking of God in traditional ways (thereby
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