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Nashville Cooperation Circle is a member of the United Religions Initiative whose purpose is to promote enduring daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing the Earth and all living beings. 
 
All NCC annual events include peacemaking though the arts and humanity’s varied creative endeavors.
NCC's attention to key interfaith environmental programs is being done with the Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light leaders.  Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light


Universal Prayer for Peace
Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth;
lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust;
lead me from hate to love,
from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart,
our world, our universe.
 
This prayer is an adaptation of a famous mantra from the Hindu Upanishads, translated by Satish Kumar, a Jain Monk.
 
Each day at noon, people of all faiths and none use this ‘Universal Prayer for Peace’. This forms a wave of prayer and hope rippling each day around the globe.
May Peace Prevail on Earth!

Joyce Wilding
United Religions Initiative/ Nashville Cooperative Circle
www.URINCC.com
​Cherokee Native American Albert Bender helps URI NCC members Joyce Wilding & Massood Taj remember the need to honor scared ground we walk on with every step we take…
Interfaith peace service held in Nashville
URI/NCC member Massood Taj playing a “shakuhachi” a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo.
Native American Wisdom
“When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.” – Lakota
“A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.” – Iowa
“Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.” – Hopi
 
“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” – Navajo
 
“Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.”- Cherokee
Joyce Wilding URI/NCC president by the new URI/NCC banner on the Scarritt Bennett Center campus.