We call Global Spirit the first “internal travel” series, because the topics and the discussions so often lead to a kind of inner exploration. U...

When the Charter for Compassion was launched in November 2009, I didn't know that by 2012 more than 85,000 people would have affirmed it online or that we would have 150 active partners around the world.

On March 22, for the first time ever, Armstrong will present the “State of the Charter for Compassion,” highlighting the progress made around...

Interfaith children, natural experts in this field, have not been officially welcomed, whether in high-level interfaith dialogue between religious institutions or in more local grassroots interfaith activism.

Compassion has a problem. According to journalist Krista Tippett, the idea's meaning has been, "Hollowed out in our culture ... it's seen as a squishy...

All too frequently, religious believers often act in opposition to the core message of their faiths and nonbelievers vilify religion as the source of many of the world's problems.

It is time to combat the ignorance that inspires hatred and fear. We have seen the harm religious chauvinism can do; now let us bear witness to the power of compassion.

Now that she has reached the mountaintop of fame, I hope the author of Eat, Pray, Love will find meaning and fulfillment of a deeper kind by borrowing one word more from MLK: "Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve."

It has long been clear to me that unless we learn to apply the Golden Rule globally, treating all people as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we are unlikely to have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

As we proudly welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first world football championship tournament held on African soil,...