Environmental protection, Pope Francis points out in his Laudato Si’ encyclical, cannot be assured solely on the basis of financial cost-benefit calculations. The health of the Earth, in other words,...
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Do you ever complain? I sometimes find myself doing it, and then I realize I should work on eliminating all those negative and unproductive complaints from my life. We’ve all...
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The Devil: what power he holds over human thought! We have given him many names: Satan, Diablo, Prince of Darkness, Beast, and the Serpent. In human history we have envisioned...
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One of the greatest heroes of the Baha’i Faith, Mulla Husayn – the first to accept the Bab, the forerunner of the Baha’i revelation – came to his new belief...
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On a religious forum I ran across an essay on Baha’is and the United Nations in which a woman I’ll call “Jen” made a series of statements about Baha’i belief...
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I work voluntarily with the sick, and some of them have serious illnesses. Quite understandably, many patients and their loved ones suffer considerable anxiety. It must be a huge...
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Any realistic view of our present global situation must acknowledge that we are experiencing rapid political, social, and environmental deterioration. Unfortunately, parallels to the storm clouds that gathered before World...
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One day in my twin sons’ Baha’i-inspired children’s class I heard this quote from the Baha’i writings: “There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer.” Nothing sweeter. ...
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