A house of worship built for no single creed — held instead by seven principles every tradition already recognizes as sacred.
Interfaith Sanctuary is a gathering place, not a doctrine. We were not built to replace the church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or grove anyone already calls home — we were built for the ground between them, where a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an animist, and the simply searching can sit in the same pews and mean the same prayer in different words.
What holds us together isn't a shared belief about God. It's a shared agreement about how to treat one another while we each work that question out for ourselves.
We don't gather here to agree on who God is. We gather to meet each other as human beings first — and to let the healing that happens between two people move outward, the way it always has.
One person heals. That healing reaches their family. Families steady their communities. And communities, over time, are what change a society. It is slow, unglamorous work — but it is the only kind that lasts.
Shared in the circle as a reminder of who we're healing toward — an identity that sits underneath every label of religion or background.
Inspired by the seven Noahide laws — humanity's oldest recorded attempt at a universal ethic — restated here as a positive charter for a sanctuary that belongs to everyone.
Recognize and respect the presence of the Divine in all life.
Use words to uplift, bless, and bring truth into the world.
Cherish and safeguard the life and dignity of every human being.
Cultivate integrity, consent, and sacredness in how we relate.
Live with honesty, trust, and care for others' belongings in shared community.
Show compassion toward animals and honor the interconnection of life.
Stand for justice, accountability, and the well-being of all.
Recognize and respect the presence of the Divine in all life.
Use words to uplift, bless, and bring truth into the world.
Cherish and safeguard the life and dignity of every human being.
Cultivate integrity, consent, and sacredness in how we relate.
Live with honesty, trust, and care for others' belongings in shared community.
Show compassion toward animals and honor the interconnection of life.
Stand for justice, accountability, and the well-being of all.
Before any tradition here agrees on a single point of theology, they already agree on this. Different words, same rule, older than any of us.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation."
Babylonian Talmud"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Matthew 7:12"Pay, O children of Adam, as you would love to be paid, and be just as you would love to have justice."
Qur'an 83:1–6"Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful."
Udana-Varga 5:18"This is the sum of Dharma: do nothing unto others which would cause you pain if done to you."
Mahabharata 5:1517"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
Doctrine of the Mean 13.3"Precious like jewels are the minds of all. To hurt them is not at all good."
Guru Arjan Dev Ji, 259"All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One."
Black Elk"If thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself."
Baha'u'llah"Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective."
Secular / Humanist ethicsA sanctuary held for everyone still needs a floor to stand on. These are ours.
No one here speaks for the Divine on anyone else's behalf. Everyone is their own guru — we can guide, but we don't decide for you.
Disagreement is welcome. Cruelty and disappearing on people are not. Persistent bad faith is grounds for exile from the circle.
This sanctuary is held, led, and protected by women. #matriarchy
Every tradition that gathers people also has to name what pulls people apart — selfishness, cruelty, the slow talking-of-oneself into harming others. Each names it differently, and we don't ask anyone here to trade their word for someone else's. So the sanctuary's reading list doesn't circle around comfort. It circles around evil itself — how it forms, how it hides, and how it's recognized — because a sanctuary that can't look at that honestly isn't much of a sanctuary.
Carl Jung spent much of his life on this same problem, and his conclusion was blunt: a person doesn't grow toward the light by picturing themselves as good. They grow by making their own darkness conscious. Left unexamined, he warned, that darkness doesn't go away — it quietly takes over, directing a life from underneath, until what was never faced gets mistaken for fate.
— after C.G. Jung, on the shadow
A term from Indigenous Algonquian thought for a "mind-virus" of appetite and disconnection that spreads person to person — used here as shared vocabulary for something every faith already warns against.
A clinical look at narcissism from someone who has lived it and studied it. Useful for naming a pattern of harm without needing to diagnose the person in front of you.
A religious historian distills every major tradition to one shared denominator: active, practical empathy. It moves past “who is right” entirely and becomes a hands-on guidebook for training ourselves to show up for one another in daily life — the practice that answers the shadow the rest of this shelf names.
A guide to reading the Qur’an on its own terms, by the second head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Included here as an open door into a neighbor’s scripture — the sanctuary’s way of meeting a tradition through its own words, not someone else’s summary of them.
Available wherever books are sold. Interfaith Sanctuary is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by either author.
Interpol, "Evil" — a song about the discomfort of looking straight at something dark instead of looking away. Shared here in that spirit, not as doctrine.
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