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Eboo Patel

September 13, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Eboo Patel speaking at a TEDx talk

Eboo Patel is the co-founder of the IFYC, an organization that strives to turn interfaith into a high-energy, service-oriented way of being together.

Filed Under: Islam, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Bree Newsome

September 7, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Still of Bree Newsome being featured on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore

Bree Newsome is a young activist who removed the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Capitol Building after the shooting at a historical Black church.

Filed Under: Christianity, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Music Vision Week: Abrahamic Faiths

July 5, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Abrahamic Faiths Music Vision

These featured peacemaking musicians reflect the diversity of the Abrahamic faiths: Pat Humphries & Sandy Opatow, Matisyahu, Emmanuel Jai, & Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens.

Filed Under: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, SPIRITUALITY

George Lakey (b. 1937)

June 21, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

George Lakey

George Lakey is a peace trainer and activist who founded Training for Change, an organization that trains leaders and groups in strategic nonviolent action.

Filed Under: Christianity, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

June 8, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day was a pacifist activist and journalist who co-founded The Catholic Worker. She was a vocal nonviolent activist during several American wars.

Filed Under: Christianity, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Roger Williams (1603-1684)

May 31, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Return of Roger Williams from England with the First Charter, 1644. From a painting by C.R. Grant. Engraving from The Providence Plantations for 250 Years, Welcome Arnold Greene, 1886.

Roger Williams a visionary early-American who advocated for religious liberty and separation of church and state. He founded Rhode Island in 1636 as a pure democracy.

Filed Under: Christianity, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Hildegard Goss-Mayr and Jean Goss (b.1930) (1912-1991)

May 25, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Hildegard Goss-Mayr & Jean Goss left a lasting imprint on peace training in their process for developing strategies & their methods of teaching nonviolence.

Filed Under: Christianity, Europe, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947-1984)

May 25, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Jerzy Popiełuszko

Jerzy Popiełuszko was a preist involved in the historic nonviolent freedom movement known as Solidarity. Ultimately, he became a martyr for that revolution.

Filed Under: Christianity, Europe, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Peter Benenson (1921-2005)

May 25, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Amnesty International Logo Symbology

In 1961, Peter Benenson was moved to action by a story in the newspaper. He founded Amnesty International, an organization working to ending human rights abuses.

Filed Under: Christianity, Europe, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Moses Montefiore (1784-1885)

May 3, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Moses Montefiore

Moses Montefiore was a famous 19th-Century British Jewish philanthropist who used his wealth to advocate for fair treatment of religious minorities.

Filed Under: Europe, Judaism, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

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