Welcome to Interfaith Heroes Books — True Stories of Courage to Inspire and to Help You Shape Strategies for Peace

This is an ongoing resource for people seeking true stories of men and women who risked crossing religious boundaries to heal communities and, in many cases, to save lives. These stories were researched and written by the Rev. Daniel Buttry, the international peace negotiator for American Baptist Churches—working in cooperation with other interfaith scholars and the editors at ReadTheSpirit.

    We have consulted many sources in writing these true stories. (The book version details our sources.) If you have questions — and especially if you want to suggest other good online sources related to these heroes—please, Email us! We can add new links to our pages, if you help us to find new online resources we should add.
    These 31 stories from 2009 are becoming a helpful online resource for students, teachers, small-group leaders, community volunteers, clergy, political leaders, newsletter editors and managers of diversity programs—to identify just a few reasons that readers are drawn toward this site and this book.

You can purchase, “Interfaith Heroes, Volume 1,” by Dan Buttry from Amazon now.

AND: You can purchase “Interfaith Heroes, Volume 2” from Amazon, as well.  

Here are True Stories of Interfaith Heroes from Volume 2:

Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye. (at right)
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne.
Patricia Smith Melton.
Karim Al-Hussayni, Aga Khan IV.
Thich Nhat Hanh.

Richard St. Barbe Baker.
Masahisa Goi.
Corrie ten Boom. (shown above)
Dervis Kerkut.
Irena Sendler.

E. Stanley Jones.
Aung San Suu Kyi.
Martin Luther King Day!
Mohandas Gandhi.
Thomas Merton.

Evelyn Underhill.
Kabir.
John Leland.
Haym Salomon.
Queen Isabella & King John.

Ashoka the Great.
Hans Kung.
Juliet Garretson Hollister.
Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Sri Ramakrishna.

Rabbi David Rosen. (shown above)
Ephraim Isaac.
Chiara Lubich.
The Dalai Lama. (shown above)
Baruch Tenembaum.
Pope John Paul II.

THESE STORIES APPEAR ONLY IN THE BOOK EDITION of “Interfaith Heroes 2”:

Wayne Teasdale.

Shanta D. Premawardhana.

Joseph H. Gelberman.

Zheng He.

Simone Weil.

Karen Armstrong.

Bruce Feiler.

Abd-Ar-Rahman III.

Al-Hakam II.

Titus Brandsma.

Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit. (at left)

Charles Freer Andrews.

Stephen Samuel Wise.

Sulak Sivaraksa.

Gaston Grandjean Dayanand.

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INSPIRATIONAL STORIES IN “INTERFAITH HEROES 1”:

True stories about the following heroes appear in Volume 1 (LINKS lead to selected chapters of this book that we’ve published online):

King Negus Ashama Ibn Abjar of Abyssinia.
Moses Maimonides.
Francis of Assisi and Al-Malik Al-Kamil.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.
Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar.
Roger Williams.
Moses Mendelssohn.
Moses Montefiore.
Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

Rabindranath Tagore.

Henrietta Szold.
Mohandas Gandhi.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

Muriel Lester.

Etty Hillesum.
Albanian Muslims During the Holocaust.
Martin Buber.
Andre Trocme.

Howard Thurman (at left).
Lanza del Vasto.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Fritz Eichenberg.
Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Jacques Maritain.
H.A. Mukti Ali.
Imam Moussa Al-Sadr.
Christian De Cherge.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.
Th. Sumartana.

Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji.

Cardinal Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger.