Word: palmer
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...Global Values 101” has “a feel of spontaneity, intimacy, open-hearted quality...human quality that I like very much,” Palmer said. “It’s more interesting to read a conversation between Robert Reich and 600 students than to read one of Reich’s books...
Former Religion 1529 students praised Palmer and expected that the book would influence its readers profoundly...
According to Palmer, while each speaker takes the book in a different direction, two important themes that link together the individual interviews are courage and the “simultaneity of wildly contrasting human fates...
Elaborating on this idea of simultaneity, Palmer said that the book emphasizes “what it means to be alive and well at the same moment as others are in distress, and what we can do to respond to others’ pain...It’s so much about personal engagement and personal choice,” he said...
...Palmer said he hopes readers will take away from “Global Values 101” the importance of their duty to participate in an effort to create a more humane, empathetic world. Many of the students in Religion 1529, he said, were eager to discover how they as college students could learn to be as courageous as the speakers...