UriSupport URIReligion, for kids — one text a day.
A friendly, curious tour through the world's great religions. Three days. Three short messages to your phone. Perfect for families and classrooms who want to raise curious, kind kids.
Hi, I'm Uri.
I'll be walking beside you for the next three days. My name comes from something big and beautiful: the United Religions Initiative — a little like a United Nations for all the world's faiths, where people of every tradition come together to share their wisdom and work for peace.
And U-R-I is also a promise for how we'll learn together:
Learn the stories, symbols, and questions that matter to your neighbors — really understand them, not just glance.
Set down what you assumed. Start fresh. Meet each tradition (and each person) with curious, kind eyes.
Take one small action that leaves your family, classroom, or block a little more peaceful than you found it.
Every text I send you carries a story, a lesson, and one small challenge — because the world's traditions have been quietly teaching us how to live well together for thousands of years. Let's listen.
Why we made this
Kids are natural theologians. They ask the biggest questions — why are we here? what happens when we die? why should we be kind? — long before adults are ready. This challenge, based on the wonderful URI Kids: World Religions project, gives you a simple, respectful, three-day starting point.
Sarajevo hosts URI's global gathering
From June 12–17, interreligious leaders from over 25 countries met in Sarajevo to share stories, build trust, and plan peace-building work around the world.
Read the story →Here's what you'll get
One lesson + a small challenge per day. The pages open one day at a time — after you sign up.
What is a religion, anyway?
Religions are how people have tried to answer the biggest questions: Why are we here? What happens when we die? How should we treat each other? We'll unpack it in one friendly text.
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Meet the five biggest traditions
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism — 5 kid-sized snapshots of what each one holds sacred, in a single message.
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The golden thread
Almost every tradition teaches some version of "treat others the way you'd want to be treated." We'll end with a small challenge you can try at school tomorrow.
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Join the challenge
Drop your phone number and we'll text you Day 1 tomorrow morning.
A quiet chorus of yes.
Parents, teachers, executives, monks, and Global Council members — one vow across many traditions. Here's what called them in.
“My kids go to school with Muslim, Christian, and traditional-faith friends. Uri gave us the words to talk about it at the dinner table without anyone feeling small.”
“I've watched Hillel's story land with a nine-year-old in Haifa and a nine-year-old in Ramallah in the same week. That's the whole reason I give.”
“I wanted my daughters to be proud of our tradition AND curious about their neighbors'. Three days of Uri did more than a year of my lectures.”
“We employ people from twelve traditions. I underwrite URI because a workforce that respects each other's faith outperforms one that tiptoes around it.”
“My kids go to school with Muslim, Christian, and traditional-faith friends. Uri gave us the words to talk about it at the dinner table without anyone feeling small.”
“I've watched Hillel's story land with a nine-year-old in Haifa and a nine-year-old in Ramallah in the same week. That's the whole reason I give.”
“I wanted my daughters to be proud of our tradition AND curious about their neighbors'. Three days of Uri did more than a year of my lectures.”
“We employ people from twelve traditions. I underwrite URI because a workforce that respects each other's faith outperforms one that tiptoes around it.”
“The Prophet, peace be upon him, told us to seek knowledge even in China. Teaching our children about other faiths IS that command, lived out.”
“Compassion is a skill. It has to be practiced young. Uri gives grandparents like me something real to hand to the little ones.”
“Bishop Swing's quest reminded me: bridges are built one story at a time. I give monthly so more children hear those stories in their own language.”
“One of us was raised Buddhist, the other Presbyterian. We wanted our boys to see both — and everyone else — as beautiful. Uri does that in three days.”
“The Prophet, peace be upon him, told us to seek knowledge even in China. Teaching our children about other faiths IS that command, lived out.”
“Compassion is a skill. It has to be practiced young. Uri gives grandparents like me something real to hand to the little ones.”
“Bishop Swing's quest reminded me: bridges are built one story at a time. I give monthly so more children hear those stories in their own language.”
“One of us was raised Buddhist, the other Presbyterian. We wanted our boys to see both — and everyone else — as beautiful. Uri does that in three days.”
23% of families in the Religion for Kids challenge choose to donate. Thank you.
One bishop. One phone call. One "fifth vow."
In 1993, Bishop William E. Swing got a call from the United Nations. The U.N. was turning 50 — would he help host the celebration, and could he bring representatives of all the world's religions?
He couldn't sleep that night. The nations had gathered for 50 years. The religions had never gathered — not once — for a single day of common vocation. By morning he'd made his fifth vow — after husband, deacon, priest, and bishop — to find a way for people of every faith to keep their faith and still share one vocation for the world.
A beloved and hilarious storyteller, Bishop Swing spent his life using laughter, books, and bold action to end nuclear war and build a world of peace for us, our children, and every child yet to come.
Uri — the little character teaching your kids this week — is named for that quest.
This idea came from URI Labs
URI Labs is a group of volunteers inside URI who dream up ideas for spreading peace around the world. This 3-day challenge started on one of their lab benches.
If you're excited to help, tap below to tell us how — share URI's story on social media, help find other donors, contribute ideas, or something else entirely.