Thanks for all you helped us accomplish in 2019! Read our year in review to celebrate with us what we achieved and then read our financial report to marvel at how much we did with so little. Haha! Enjoy!
Voices of the George Floyd Memorial
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Reflections on Beloved Community and Nuclear Disarmament
Black Voices Share Their Realities on Relating to the Police
New to Zoom? Tips for Attending Zoom Events
Happy Easter!
Chag Pesach sameai-ch!
What Are You Willing to Die for?
In this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we overcome our fear of death, illness, and discomfort, while still taking appropriate precautions to safeguard our community, family, and ourselves? In this video, talk, and article, which is a part of our Wisdom of Peace Pilgrim training series, we explore how the path of love can help us overcome our fears.
Reframing Problems
How can we relate skillfully to problems so they don’t cause us to become fearful, angry, or overwhelmed? How can take advantage of our problems to nurture our mindful and loving heart? Explore these answers in the video, talk, and article Reframing ProblemsI, which is part of our Wisdom of Peace Pilgrim Training series.
Understanding God (Love)
As a nonsectarian organization, the Boundless Love Project generally avoids God-talk. We recognize that many people have been traumatized and persecuted by religious wisdom traditions, and to make our trainings inclusive, we keep them secular and nonsectarian. But in this post, we strike new ground by sharing with you what nonsectarian wisdom teacher Peace Pilgrim thinks about her direct understanding of God. We hope that both our theist supporters and atheist members find the talk relevant, useful, and inspiring.
Using Mindfulness to Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic
Understanding the Power of Political Jiu-Jitsu to Benefit Nonviolent Campaigns
If you are an activist, you need to understand how to wield the power of political jiu-jitsu. if you do, you will be able to use your opponent’s ability to repress you, to undermine their sources of power, while bolstering your own. Read on so that your efforts to create a beloved community may be wildly successful.
Who Was Peace Pilgrim?
Learn about the incredibly courageous and wise wisdom teacher Peace Pilgrim. She was an extraordinary woman who was healthy, vigorous, and joyful as she walked penniless for 28 years. She owned nothing but a few simple items which she carried with her. She walked until given shelter, and fasted until given food. And she received these things without asking for them. She did all this so she could share her message of peace with others, which she summarized like this: “This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
Mindful Direct Action Training Resources
Mindful Direct Action Training at Mayflower United Church of Christ
Powerful Tools for Nonviolent Activists: Pledges, Role Playing, and Songs.
Pledges, role playing, and freedom songs are three important tools in the nonviolent activist’s arsenals. Learn how and why to use them with examples from the US civil rights movement in Birmingham during the 50s and 60s. This article also contains the full text of the Commitment Card which we used as a template to create our Beloved Community Pledge.
