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How to Advocate for Change
Advocating for justice is a calling of our faith traditions.
Read MoreBehind 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.
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.
Read MoreStanding 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…
Read MorePractically Symbolic
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Read MoreTouched 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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