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URI Youth URI: Cultivating Peace
from the Inside Out

by Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director, United Religions Initiative

At the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia, I had lunch with Dadi Janki, the senior leader of the Brahma Kumaris, who had been an inspirational friend for fourteen years. Dadi told me the story of a queen who lost a precious necklace and sent people to the farthest reaches of her kingdom to search for it. The search continued unsuccessfully until the day one person went up to the queen and pointed out that the necklace wasn’t lost, but was around her neck.

“That’s the way it is with peace,” Dadi said. “We spend so much time looking here and there for peace when it is inside us all the time, waiting to be discovered and cultivated.”

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Do We Have To Pray Together?
by Rabbi Michael Balinsky

“Do we have to pray together?”

I asked this to Dirk Ficca just before my first board meeting as a new trustee of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. I was relieved with his response: Members of the CPWR do not pray together, in order to recognize the differences that exist between our traditions.

As an Orthodox rabbi, I am part of a tradition that has been wary of inter-religious dialogue. For some, the tension historically has been one of suspicion about the motives of those who sought dialogue—and the lurking question if it may simply be a subterfuge for proselytizing.

Perhaps as significantly, however, has been the concern that in the search for common ground, we might dilute the theological uniqueness of each of our individual communities. That we might ignore the specific ways a community views its sacred traditions and texts.

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  Sikh Teachings for Mother's Day
by Ranbir S. Sandhu

Mother's Day, which started as a meeting of grieving mothers of the Civil War, has now become a celebration of the role of mothers in our society.  Read More...



To My Mother
by Akbar Ahmed

When I walk at night alone
in the deep wadis of her sobs
or when I know that each time I drive fast
or laze the reply to her letters;
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Celebrate Mother's Day ... Biblically
by Brad Hirschfield

Children may ask why if there is a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, is there no Children's Day.  Read More...

Parliament Webinar Series
Learning from the
Egyptian Revolution


Ahmed Rehab June 8, 2011
10:00am U.S. Central Time 

Ahmed Rehab
Executive Director Register Now
Council on American-Islamic Relations

The Egyptian Revolution saw one of the largest and most comprehensive peaceful revolutions in history. 12 million people took to the streets in a period of 18 days to oust a 30 year autocratic president and a 60 year entrenched regime. Ahmed Rehab who participated in the Tahrir Square movement shares his first-hand account. Learn More...

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