World Peace — for a Couple of Hours
<p>There it was, peace on earth: Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Mormons, Catholics, Buddhists, Brahma Kumaris and assorted others hanging out together around bountiful breakfast tables and offering prayers in every known faith tradition. . . beginning with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohlone" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ohlone</a> Prayer in the Four Directions because “we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone . . .”</p>
<p>OK, it’s San Francisco.</p>
<p>But in addition to all that doom loop stuff you’ve been reading about, in the City of St Francis there is a powerful interfaith community that works and shares and agitates for good even when it’s not being called upon to fight a specific instance of antisemitism or racial violence or Palestinian hate (or homelessness.) The several hundred gathered for this purely celebratory event were members and supporters of the <a href="https://www.sfinterfaithcouncil.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">San Francisco Interfaith Council</a>, now in its 35th year.</p>
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