Late in 2005 I encountered Paul McKenna’s Golden Rule Poster. It was the genesis of a new understanding.

I have never believed that any one faith or tradition has an exclusive claim to the truth of God’s Presence. All life-affirming religions, secular moral codes, and scientific endeavor can help us to learn something of God, Creation, and the universe. However, while I had always understood my faith from an ecumenical perspective, I hadn’t invested much effort in thinking of it from an interfaith point of view.

Paul’s poster changed that. It led me to other resources, including Jeffrey Wattles’ book The Golden Rule, which documented the principle’s presence across millennia of human history. Not only was the concept of “doing unto others” present in other religions, it was also the foundation of the Ethic of Reciprocity and humanity’s secular moral codes. Research is even finding evidence to indicate that it’s part of our genetic makeup.

That’s why the subtitle of Do Unto Others is The Underlying Principle of Life and How to Live It.

The Golden Rule Radical is dedicated to articles that speak to this universal principle - a concept that can provide common ground for a world that can no longer afford to ignore the reality that what happens to the least of us, affects all of us.

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