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Three Cups of Compassion

2011 May 11
by Diocesan Staff

I wrote an essay for Episcopal Life on the controversy over Greg Morteson’s book Three Cups of Tea:

With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second cup of tea, you are an honored guest. With the third cup of tea, you become family. This Balti proverb lends Greg Mortenson’s book, Three Cups of Tea, its name. But with a class action lawsuit filed against him in early May following investigations by writer John Krakauer and 60 Minutes, what is needed now is three cups of compassion.

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That essay continues online here: Three Cups of Compassion.

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