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If we love and serve
people that disagree with us, we can find many opportunities to be united.
We believe evil is served when we require people to believe what we believe in
order to help them. Acts of kindness and participating in common causes is a way
to bridge gaps and expand our understanding of God.
Over the years the Teach Peace Foundation has partnered with organizations and people that do
not believe what we believe. Consider the example of a person working to abolish
nuclear bombs but also supporting the death penalty. We support this person in
their work to abolish nuclear bombs but we would not support their work to
promote the death penalty. We take the position that if you support people when
they are doing good, they will do more good and the gaps where we disagree will
lessen.
God's love and our service flowing from God's love should not be restricted to
people who believe what we believe. A good example is the Teach Peace Foundation
awards program which recognizes people for their good work independent of their
personal beliefs. This may sound like common sense but over the years it has
been amazing how many people and organization will find one of the programs that
we offer to be different from their understanding of peacemaking and reject
everything we do. When this happens, we remain unchanged in our support of the
organizations and individuals of their work to help make our world a better one.
Teach Peace's open source approach is further
strengthened by a willingness to help other organizations working to create a
stable and sustainable peaceful world.
Funding for programs to
facilitate cooperation with other organizations is a challenge and does limit
the amount of support we are able to provide other organizations. As a result, we keep this
process as simple and relatively free from requiring Teach Peace staff time.
When a person with another organization would like to redistribute Teach Peace
educational materials, they are encouraged to ask for permission by writing to
us at contact@teachpeace.com.
We have approved every request over the last several years and while we reserve
the right to say no, most requests will be approved.
To learn about our more about how we operate,
click on the below links and visit the About Us
section.
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