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BIC Offices in Addis Ababa and Cairo explore how societies must transcend conceptions of power as domination if they are to move toward genuine equality of women and men.

The entire world has now become largely afflicted with the Western view of love as an event, in much the same way that most scholars mistakenly view creation as an...

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People often ask me how to meditate. I’ve been thinking about it a lot this week, and here is what I’ve come up with.  As you know, I like to go straight to the Baha’i Writings to see what they say. So for example, I read a quotation from Baha’u’llah like: Blessed is he who […] seateth […]

As a child, I was abused terribly by my parents. Like many small children, I believed my parents represented God.  Also, I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian culture with...

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Interestingly, a great deal of fascinating scholarship exists about the neurotic paradigm of romantic love as it has evolved in Western literature and culture.  My favorite is Love in the...

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