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It began almost 30 years ago in New York City, USA. The question was, could we create "interfaith ministers" to serve people of all faith paths? Over 3000 ordained interfaith ministers have now come from 8 to 10 interfaith seminaries around the world since that first class of graduates. For most of that time, "interfaith" was thought of as a dialogue between faith paths.

Some of these interfaith ministers took up the challenge to create worship, service, and education communities with people of all different faith paths that didn't ask for change but only to create communities sufficient of themselves that spiritual nurture people of all spiritual expressions. "Interfaith" was becoming a spiritual expression itself.

In 2009, a universal religious order was created for ordained and lay people of all faiths. It was the Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI). One of the group's first tasks was to organize congregations and seminaries in the United States to come together and form the Council of Interfaith Congregations of the US (CIC-USA). In March 2010, the World Council of Interfaith Congregations (WCIC) was formed. The Interfaith spiritual expression took on the term of "interspiritual" with the creation with OUnI of the work of the late Brother Dr. Wayne Teasdale to form the Community of the Mystic Heart (originally visioned as the Universal Order of Sannyasa).

Interfaith-Interspiritual Ministers around the world are organizing to serve and worship in communities without dogmas and inclusive all all faith.