GRASSROOTS INTERFAITH: Looking Back, Looking Forward, a history of Grassroots Interfaith

Five long-time interfaith activists get together to share highlights of their personal adventures in interfaith over the last 30 plus years. They also suggest what may be yet to come in the Interfaith world where it is obvious “we have more in common than we knew.”

• Rev. Hung Sure, a Buddhist monk director of DHARMA RADIO
• Aziza Hasan, Executive-Director of NewGround
• Perri “P.K.” McCary, storyteller and founder of Think Peace International;
• Ruth Broyde Sharone, creator of INTERFAITH: The Musical

Moderator of the event, Rev. Paul Chaffee, retired Editor and Founder of THE INTERFAITH OBSERVER. provides details about the slow-moving beginning and then the rapid growth spurt of the interfaith movement.Host: Rev. Paul Chaffee

Paul Chaffee was publisher and editor of The Interfaith Observer (TIO), a monthly internet magazine promoting healthy interfaith culture from 2011 through 2019. He was the founding executive director of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio, where he served for 17 years. He sat on United Religions Initiative’s original Board of Directors for six years, was a trustee of the North American Interfaith Network (NAIN) for ten, and served as a Parliament Ambassador for the Parliament of the World’s Religions for three. Rev. Chaffee was honored as an Interfaith Visionary by the Temple of Understanding at its 50th anniversary in 2010.