How to Advocate for Change
Advocating for justice is a calling of our faith traditions.
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Behind and Before Us
PTU will work to create and strengthen multi-faith partnerships. In every neighborhood, town, and city there are communities of wisdom who also sense this coming. They want to do their part of create stronger ties of love, respect, and cooperation between people of different wisdom traditions. When people of strongly held practices, beliefs, and values work for stronger communities it lights the way for another approach to the challenges coming our way.
It builds social capital.
It builds stronger communities.
It helps people to see that they are not alone and that we can face the future together.
Light for Everyone
The sun is low in the sky and the night-time gloom is deeper as the earth finishes its northern tilt away from the Sun. The light is golden and lovely when it shines through. It shines upon all of us no matter what wisdom tradition we are shaped by. It shines on us in whatever…
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Winter Newsletter
Click HERE to read our Winter 2021 newsletter. A message from our Executive Director and thoughts on new priorities for multi-faith peacemaking by Michael Ramos, Director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle. Please consider making a contribution to our end-of-year fund drive. Donors receive the printed version of our biannual newsletter. DONATE HERE
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A Better World for My Grandkids
I want my grandkids to live in a world where we aren’t afraid of each other. Doing interfaith work is one way to help that happen.
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Standing with Muslim Neighbors in Mukilteo
We recently had a chance to sit down with PTU community partners Paul and Regina Ingram. We talked about their activities for multi-faith peacemaking in their hometown, Mukilteo, Washington. After a public fear campaign threatened to divide the community, Paths to Understanding staff supported community meetings to build relationships between Christian and Muslim neighbors. In…
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A Moment of Gratitude and Courage
When we can prepare ourselves through prayer, meditation, conversation with friends, clergy, or therapists to engage our family with courage and gratitude we can invite them to recognize our deepest need: the need for a family that will stick by us. As they sense this need is met they have the possibility to relax. Then in a more calm state we can talk about our shared values and how we differ on some.
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Practically Symbolic
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Touched by Women Luminaries
The abuse and marginalization of women and girls should be central to an interfaith understanding of violence and injustice that imperils cultures, countries and the world. Gender-equity ought not be a threat to religious norms.
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