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Extreme Do-Gooders and a Groundbreaking Hindu Priest |
September 23, 2016 |
We learn about people who take good works to the limit, even if it means doing less for friends and family... and we hear from a Hindu priest living in a freshman dorm.
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Extreme Do-Gooders, And Why They Make Us Uneasy |
September 23, 2016 |
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If you had to choose, would you save your own drowning child, or three drowning strangers? Would you adopt 20 children, or take a higher paying job in order to give away more money? Larissa MacFarquhar, author of "Strangers Drowning," introduces us to extreme do-gooders--people who refuse to draw the line at helping their own.
Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help |
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The Kindness of Strangers |
September 23, 2016 |
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Bernadette has a plan: She will do one random act of kindness for a stranger every day for a year. How do these strangers react to her flowers and inspirational notes? Producer Kirsty McQuire takes us along for a day in the life of someone trying to do the right thing.
Bernadette Russell, author of Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy: Acts of Kindness for Kids |
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Dharma in the Dorm |
September 23, 2016 |
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Georgetown's Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan is the first Hindu chaplain (and monk) to serve as a chaplain at an American university. He's celibate, wears traditional robes...and he's living on a hallway of boisterous freshmen in a student dorm.
Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan, Hindu chaplain at Georgetown University |
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