Renowned thinker Karen Armstrong has a gift for building bridges. The specialist in the role of religion in the world makes sense no matter what your spiritual background or bent. Her latest release, Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life ($25, Knopf), is a perfect example, a plainspoken and passionate guide to the human quality she says can change the world. She discusses her ideas with the CBC’s Mary Hynes on Monday (January 17) at the Reference Library. See listing.
