Book Review: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 08:29 p.m., Thursday, May 3, 2012 In Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (2011, Anchor Books), religion scholar and prolific writer Karen Armstrong ...

No matter how many times we study a step we find something meaningful. Or sometimes we are reminded of how we felt and worked the step for the first time.

CATEECHEE — Philip Jones climbed up a steep bank along Twelve Mile Creek on Thursday morning and poked at the damp forest floor with his shovel.

Afghan students learn the centuries-old skills that carved out the giant buddhas blown up by extremists Under perfectly carved niches that once held dozens of small buddha statues, the purposeful tap of chisel on stone echoed over the Bamiyan valley for the first time in centuries. Twelve young Afghans had gathered to take the first tentative steps back towards a stone-working tradition that ...