In a dialogue I had with my client and friend Misha – like me, a person of Slavic-Jewish descent – I learned that he believed segregation of different colored people...
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Imagine yourself, for a moment, as a fish in a river. The river, your world and your sustainer, supplies all of your needs, and nourishes and shapes your interactions in...
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Why is self-discipline important, and how can we strengthen it? This “Virtues Basket” video explores how to control our feelings and overcome our weaknesses, and their practical benefits for our...
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What is the human spirit? From a Baha’i perspective, our souls reflect our innermost eternal reality – the single element within each of us that will last forever. RELATED: All...
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Kahlil Gibran said “Work is love made visible.” As a craftsperson, I’ve tried to incorporate that spiritual ideal into what I make. When I began in the early ‘70s, it...
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For Baha’is, work can be worship. Baha’u’llah urged every person to learn and practice an art, trade, craft or profession for the good of themselves, their families and society as...
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My friend Misha, an Ashkenazi Jew who arrived from the Soviet Union in his early teens, pushed back, sometimes very hard, against the Baha’i ideal of racial unity, especially where...
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Every year on September 21st, the United Nations observes the International Day of Peace, the one day set aside each year to celebrate humanity’s peaceful accomplishments. So what do we...
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Question: Do Baha’is have an idea of an afterlife? If so what does it consist of? The answer to this question – a very definite and emphatic yes – flows...
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Consider for a moment that we may have already entered what people often refer to as the “end times.” That religious term, found in many holy books, refers not to...
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We can all benefit from an enduring analogy – the process of nourishing and strengthening our bodies – to understand the gradual spiritual program the Creator employs to educate humanity. ...
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This second part in a series of articles documenting a dialogue with my friend, Misha – a Soviet Union ex-pat – reveals some of his very strong opinions about the...
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Let’s examine a few very useful symbolic and metaphorical expressions of the intermediary relationship between God and humankind, between the Creator and His messengers. These metaphors can each provide us...
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Historians and medical experts rank the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1920 as one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Can we learn some lessons from that tragic history? Because...
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The Baha’i teachings treat few subjects more emphatically and uncompromisingly than the spiritual requirement to abstain from fault-finding, backbiting, and gossip. In the Hidden Words, Baha’u’llah says: O Son of...
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Chiefs and local leaders recently spoke with the News Service about their mounting anticipation for the completion of the Baha’i House of Worship in Tanna, Vanuatu, conveying feelings of joy...
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Some years back I was hired to ghostwrite a science fiction novel for a client who, when he found out I was a Baha’i, took exception to Baha’u’llah’s teachings on...
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From time immemorial, God has entered into a covenant with His creation. Baha’u’llah’s writings describe that essential agreement, which basically guarantees that the Creator will never cease to guide humanity...
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “We’re going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B....
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As a young teenager, I had a huge collection of comic books about superheroes with extraordinary powers (particularly Superman and Spiderman), and I naturally fantasized about somehow developing a superpower...
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