Religion, for kids — a free 3-day challenge.
A friendly, curious tour through the world's great religions. Three days. Three short emails to your inbox. Perfect for families and classrooms who want to raise curious, kind kids.
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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 worldwide network where people of many faiths, and people of no faith, work together for peace, justice and healing.
Here's an easy way to remember 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 email 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.
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 email.
Preview this lesson →Meet five world traditions
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism — 5 kid-sized snapshots of what each one holds sacred, in a single message.
Preview this lesson →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 tomorrow, at home or at school.
Preview this lesson →Join the challenge
Enter your email and we'll send you Day 1 right away.
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. As he saw it, the world's religions had never come together for even one day of shared work for the world. 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.