“I was part of an extraordinary interfaith meeting that took place in Switzerland this winter. The gathering was nothing less than the attempt to create a common movement among Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus to delegitimize the use of religion as a technique of either state or personal violence.”

It was the kind of email I love to receive — and share, “Inspiring people to think differently about religion.” Please keep ’em coming:

“TED, a think tank that concentrates on new ideas in Technology, Entertainment and Design, gave its Make a Wish Award to theologian Karen Armstrong last year.  Armstrong’s wish, after years of religious scholarship and writing, was that TED would help create a universal charter for compassion among all the major religions of the world.

“To launch the project TED built a website that invited people all over the world, in multiple languages, out of every religious perspective, to contribute ideas for the Charter for Compassion —perhaps the first example of a universally created document in the history of the world.”

If you have further interest in this, check out their website:

http://charterforcompassion.com/

They expect this Charter for Compassion will be launched in cities around the world in November of this year.