On 28 November 1921, just over a century ago, Abdu’l-Baha passed away at the age of 77, at his home in Haifa, Palestine (now Israel). His funeral was unlike any...
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In this Moments of Meaning podcast, we talk to Adam Robarts, a Baha’i who runs an architectural and engineering firm in China, about a powerful dream involving his father and...
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In this installment of our Indigenous messengers of God series, we leave the Western hemisphere to briefly explore the Indigenous traditions and beliefs of the original peoples of Papua, New...
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Recently in our interfaith group we talked about the difference between justice and righteousness, and I gained a new understanding about the spiritual meaning of justice. Our conversations helped me...
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One thing is certain: every human being arrives in this world in a naked and fragile body. After this physical birth, a newborn desperately needs others for survival. Fortunately, help...
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Strangely, superstition has once again become a rampant phenomenon in our society. Based on fear or ignorance, devoid of logic or scientific justification, superstition always retards humanity’s progress. A social...
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Typically, we’ve viewed religion as consisting of multiple, separate, independent wisdom traditions. Now, we can re-vision religion as one evolving knowledge system with many branches. A long-standing paradox in the...
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In the summer of 2020, our neighbor did something incredible for our family. My husband Tim and I were driving home from Kansas, where we’d gone to see my mother,...
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The Baha’i teachings praise human nobility, as in this quotation from Baha’u’llah: O Son of Spirit! Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that...
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The Baha’is of Tunisia are marking a century since Abdu’l-Baha sent an Egyptian Baha’i named Sheikh Muhyi’d-Din Sabrí to Tunisia with a message of peace and unity. In what turned...
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Working with a local interfaith coalition called “A Mighty Stream: An Interfaith Community of Sacred Activists for Racial Justice” has given Baha’is in my community the opportunity to share some...
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Can we simultaneously believe in more than one divine messenger? Yes, the Baha’i teachings emphatically say – in fact, all Baha’is accept each one of God’s prophets. Q: Kevin, in...
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Fifty-years ago in Chicago, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of the most eloquent and revolutionary speeches of his entire career – and that is saying something....
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As we evolve our own consciousness from a focus on the self to a love of humanity, so too does religion evolve through interconnected, cumulative sacred traditions that expand with...
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Music, the Baha’i teachings assert, is “the food of the soul and the spirit.” In this episode, we explore that spiritual concept with Atieno Mboya, the African Baha’i attorney and...
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What does it mean to be spiritual in a material world? How do we develop noble human qualities like generosity, kindness, and forgiveness? What is the value of prayer? What...
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A reception held in Haifa last week brought together government officials, diplomats, civil society leaders and leaders of Faith communities — Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze — to mark the...
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In many ways, a falcon’s physical senses and abilities are much more impressive than ours. This two-pound bird can reach speeds higher than most small airplanes and is the fastest...
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Last week I drove across a border without seeing any checkpoint or border control station. No passport was necessary. Nobody asked me my destination or the purpose of my trip....
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Has the understanding of prophecies concerning the return of Christ prevented Christians from seeing the divine interventions that have occurred since Jesus’ time? Let’s look at those prophecies to find...
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