A peace pole is a pole engraved or painted with a message of peace, usually "May Peace Prevail on Earth,"

that is then placed in an important historical or religious place.

 You can adapt the activity and the materials needed for any age, making a keepsake that will remind children to love and respect one another.



When your base paint dries, write your phrase onto your peace poles using a pencil and stencil letteres

When you allow peace flow around the…

Word on the progressive street was, the Koch brothers and Big Oil were paying for busloads of people to come to the State Department hearings and speak in favor of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The fat-cat-funded union and industry folks would be there early, with signs, stacking the lines, making it difficult for those opposed to the pipeline…

Yael R. Wurmfeld

It is with deep sadness that we note the passing of Yael R. Wurmfeld, longtime member of the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.

Yael served as Director of the international office (Office of Pioneering) of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States for over 20 years. She was a…

by Kim Lawton

from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

Ten years after 9/11, relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the US remain complicated. In many areas, tensions have been on the rise. There has been sharp controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero, and according to pew, proposed mosques in 36 other locations have also…

October 2, 2011 update to “IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011” project.

Drafts of the “Statistics and Observations” piece—and the “Commentary” piece—for Section #7 of the “IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011” are now accessible at the website of The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative (at www.ipcri.net ).

Section #7 (Critical Challenge #7) is “A…

I was just looking at this website of people who are the 99% of the American people, the ones hurting because of the wanton ways of the 1%. I am part of that 99%. I could make a list of my grievances, as we all could. My list would be legit, and it would be daunting. So is yours, I imagine. Reading this website I suddenly felt very, very bummed.

But then I thought of this Carlos Castaneda quote: 'We either make ourselves…

by Sarah Bassin

from State of Formation

It is no coincidence that moments of national crisis are often coupled with sharp increases in interfaith engagement.  Laurie Goodstein wrote in The New York Times, “In the months and years after 9/11, in communities…