For four days this week, Baha’is around the world will celebrate with festivities, gifts, parties, service projects, and charitable humanitarian work. Why? Well, we’re celebrating the Baha’i holiday called “Ayyam-i-Ha.”...
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“Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” After...
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I woke up from a crash of low blood pressure again, which made me unable to eat. This condition seems to be happening on a daily basis. It is not pleasant,...
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Meet Miami’s first Black millionaire — Dana Albert Dorsey, a real estate magnate, philanthropist, Miami’s most famous early Black resident, and a Baha’i. Dorsey, a sharecropper’s son, was born in...
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If I asked you to name five famous Black people, living or deceased, who would you come up with? I asked this same question in an interactive presentation I gave...
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The second Baha’i century began and World War II neared its end in 1944 — and the first second-century Baha’is were born. That generation made a major impact on the...
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If we long for this worldly life and its physical pleasures, we should have pursued them while in our mother’s womb — because that was when we were preparing for...
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How do we move towards a more inclusive reality beyond the trappings of adversarial partisan politics? We might want to try these five unity-building principles from the Baha’i teachings. These...
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Of the known forms of human governance — aristocracy, autocracy, theocracy, or democracy — which do the Baha’i teachings recommend, and why? The answers to those questions reflect the fact...
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Living in a nursing home and seeing people coming and going after a while, either due to physical healing or heading to their permanent home in the next world, is...
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Friends, We come from far and wide, and now we are here. Our history is rich and full, with stories of discernment and resilience, beauty and brilliance, softness and strength....
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It can be hard to know what spiritual qualities you should look for in a romantic partner when our media and entertainment industry bombards us with so many images of...
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In the summer of 2017, I helped develop a project in Atlanta, Georgia, focused on a proposed memorial for the enslaved Africans once sold there – and it led me...
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The Baha’i teachings identify six essential elements for spiritual growth — the daily practices that will facilitate our spiritual development and can also be used in our search for meaning,...
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The principle teaching of the Baha’i Faith is the oneness of humanity – Baha’u’llah, its prophet and founder, wrote: “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens,” over...
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…music, sung or played, is spiritual food for soul and heart. The musician’s art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise, and it moveth the hearts of all…...
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What does it mean to be spiritual — and how do we each attain to spirituality? The Baha’i writings offer several practical and eminently achievable ways to become a more...
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I have a Christian friend who has been living here in the nursing home, bedridden, for over seven years. He is one of those I might call a reborn Christian....
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What does standing up for racial justice look like? What behaviors does it require? What actions does it necessitate? RELATED: How to Be a Better Ally for Racial Justice Learn...
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Here’s an interesting fact borne out by multiple polls, surveys, and studies: people who believe in a life after this one generally tend to be happier than those who don’t....
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