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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. 

Penguin Press
Extreme Do-Gooders, And Why They Make Us Uneasy September 23, 2016
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
Ivy Press
The Kindness of Strangers September 23, 2016
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
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