We have a huge, mostly unrecognized problem in the modern era: Large multinational corporations have largely figured out how to avoid paying their taxes. This corporate avoidance strategy shifts the...
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Are our personalities inherited and permanent? Or are they learned and acquired traits that are always subject to change? Merriam Webster defines personality as “the totality of an individual’s behavioral...
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In 2019, a group of young adolescents in the Cambodian village of Okcheay set out to plant trees along a patch of road to improve air quality and provide shelter...
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From the love and resilience passed down from your ancestors to the modern-day family traditions and undeniable cultural creativity, there’s so much to celebrate about being Black. But it can...
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The Baha’i teachings say that the Creator creates so He might bestow His gifts of love, education, enlightenment, and advancement on a being capable of understanding and utilizing these gifts:...
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Fully aware of the gifts He is capable of bestowing, the Creator devised a process best suited to enable creation to know and benefit from a relationship with God, for...
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Baha’is consider the founder and prophet of their Faith, Baha’u’llah, as the architect of the new world order promised in all of the divine scriptures of the past. In different...
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You can find useful examples of scriptural huris or mysteries in two common allusions that have been the source of grievous consternation and conflict — one a statement by Christ,...
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If you’ve been to a wedding in the past few years, there’s a good chance the couple who tied the knot came from different racial backgrounds. Or at least, given...
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Have you ever heard the phrase “curse like a sailor?” I’m no sailor, but I did get drafted into the Army at 19, and when I came home from combat,...
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Let us consider why the Creator might think it a good idea to create anything at all, let alone a group of beings as perplexing and troublesome as we human...
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Those who’ve experienced extreme trauma in their lives will know how lonely and desolate it feels when we believe with every fiber of our being that God has abandoned us. ...
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Maya Angelou, Rumi, Robert Hayden, and Amanda Gorman — the work of poets like these speak to the hearts of many and inspire people to take action. And I know from...
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The noble Indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé people of Panama and Costa Rica, once called the “Guaymi” tribe, received a promise from their prophet Uli-kron: that he would return one day. These kinds of prophetic...
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A two-year long project that strengthened seismic resistance of the House of Abbud while restoring parts of the building that had deteriorated over time has concluded. This undertaking was an...
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“They say that had there been a spiritual world they would have sensed it,” Abdu’l-Baha remarked at the Dublin Inn on August 5, 1912. He was talking about modern materialist...
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Abdu’l-Baha walked with Agnes Parsons from Day-Spring up the hill towards Tiny May where he sat on the grass near some trees. They spoke about Agnes’s eldest son, Royall. Earlier,...
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Before I met a Jewish person, my conservative Christian upbringing had culturally conditioned me to view Jewish people as morally tainted. The Baha’i Faith helped me overcome that baseless prejudice....
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Probably because I’ve been editing and writing here at BahaiTeachings.org for almost a decade, I get a steady stream of mail from readers who want to talk about their beliefs....
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We human beings can have a wide variety of feelings for one another. By itself, the word love can’t possibly encompass this entire emotional phenomena, but must be combined with...
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