For 17 years, Charles has served as URI's founding Executive Director. He has worked with religious, spiritual and other leaders in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. He has been a featured speaker internationally and has written extensively about interfaith cooperation. He co-authored with colleague Sally Mahé, Birth of a Global Community, a book on the birth of the United Religions Initiative. In addition, he has published many articles on interfaith work, contributed a chapter to Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding, published by the United States Institute of Peace, and co-authored, with colleague Barbara Hartford, a chapter in Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding. His essay, Opening the Dream: Beyond the Limits of Otherness, appears in the anthology, Deepening the American Dream. As an Episcopal priest, Charles brings to his work a strong commitment to spiritual transformation and to work for peace, justice and healing, as well as an abiding belief in the sacredness of all life on this planet.
December 17, 2012 10:31 AM
The need for diversity -- of faith, of culture and particularly of gender -- throughout URI became evident during a Sunday session of the third URI All-India Assembly.
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Drawing on the theme – Promoting Cultures of Peace – Swami Chaturvedi gave a virtuoso talk about believing in and training for peace at the third URI All-India Assembly.
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December 11, 2012 3:43 PM
The third URI All India Assembly in Shantiniketan offers an opportunity to recall the role leaders from India have played -- and continue to play -- in helping to create and grow URI.
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December 10, 2012 3:55 PM
URI Executive Director Rev. Charles Gibbs reflects on the journey he -- and URI -- have taken together while attending the third URI All India Assembly in Shantiniketan.
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November 26, 2012 3:57 PM
The Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, URI's Executive Director, offered this reflection on the latest Middle East crisis and the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
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November 19, 2012 9:08 AM
As leaders of the United Religions Initiative, we raise our voices in solidarity with the innocent civilians, Palestinians and Israelis, suffering from the latest outbreak of deadly violence.
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November 16, 2012 11:32 AM
A reflection and a rally to action in the face of anger and despair
Read more...October 29, 2012 1:41 PM
In the spirit of organizational learning and adaptation and to help guide and assess the success of URI’s growth in the future, we have developed URI’s Theory of Change (TOC).
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September 21, 2012 10:43 AM
All of us long for peace, particularly at those times – like the ones in which we are currently living – when our world is convulsed by violence, and violent change.
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September 13, 2012 3:53 PM
I join the ranks of those heartsick at the news of the tragic deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three colleagues.
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