Brene Brown answers my questions

Storyteller and social work researcher Brene Brown answers my questions in my search for goodness, or at least most of them. I have asked: What is goodness? What enables human beings to be good? What trips us up? What do we each need to do to become good? Brown says her six years of research shows that the answers are as simple — and hard — as each of us finding the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and love ourselves with our whole hearts. Oh, and she’s laugh-out-loud funny as she discusses her research findings. Listen for the bit about the muffin. You have to watch this TED Talk.

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How to Prove Your Compassion: Kick out a church for printing a photo

This most recent example of Southern Baptist "compassion" and Christian "love" is astounding in so many ways. I don't know if I'm more amazed by the fact that the Baptists think it's a sin for a church to print a photo of a gay couple -- or by the fact that the SBC disowned the congregation that printed the photo after being warned that Baptists are perceived as "mean-spirited, hurtful and angry." You think?