Interfaith Week 2025 - 'The Golden Rule'

'The Golden Rule', a natural topic for Interfaith Week, is the theme of the current issue of Dayspring, the UK Baháʼí children's magazine, providing ready-made resources for the classroom.

At the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993, more than 8,000 people, from many diverse religions, gathered to explore how religious traditions can work together on the critical issues confronting the world. As part of that gathering, some 143 leaders of the world's major faiths proclaimed the Golden Rule - that "We must treat others as we wish others to treat us" - as a common principle for religions.

Dayspring issue 117 explores the meaning of the Golden Rule from a Baháʼí perspective, in ways that might be engaging for KS2 and KS3:

• 'The Golden Thread' (p4-5) sets the Golden Rule within the context of the Baháʼí concept of progressive revelation

• 'Why Do People Fight About Religion?' (p10-11) explores the idea that true religion must be congruent with the Golden Rule

• The illustration of the Golden Rule (p 19) intended for colouring includes passages from the sacred writings of seven faiths.

Items in Dayspring magazine can be freely copied for educational use.