At the end of our prayer meeting this past week, a woman presented me with a handmade bookmark in the shape of a heart with words to the effect that receiving the bookmark should remind me to do an act of kindness for someone. The woman said, “It is National Radical Kindness Week and I thought... Continue Reading →
Radical Kindness Part 2
Photo Credit: Diocese of Camden I got to see the movie, It’s a Good Day in the Neighborhood, the wonderfully thoughtful narrative of how ‘radical kindness’ brought peace to a journalist who struggled to reconcile with his estranged father under the guidance of Fred Rogers, the American super star in children’s television. I mentioned in my last post that I had... Continue Reading →
Radical Kindness in the Neighborhood
Credit: AZ Quotes I can’t wait to see the new movie, It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, in which Tom Hanks stars as Fred Rogers, the iconic creator and performer of television’s long running childrens’ show, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Reviews of the movie have been generally quite favorable recognizing Hanks’s interpretation of Fred Rogers for hisdrilling deeply into the psyche of a man who gently... Continue Reading →