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In this latest podcast Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Baha’i Nina Lemke Harvey. Harvey, who had a near death experience when she was 3 or 4 years old, which seemed to drive the direction of her life, takes us through her spiritual journey.
Super Bowl Sunday comes just once a year, but Super Soul Sunday is here to stay. “Super Soul Sunday”, a new three-hour programming block on The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), aims to provide programming that nourishes mind, body and spirit. The weekly program includes short films from actor and life-long Baha’i Rainn Wilson’s production company “Soul [...]
Ethical Responses to Climate Change: Individual, Community, and Institutions http://www.internationalenvironmentforumhobart.com.au 10-11 December 2011, Hobart Baha’i Centre of Learning for Tasmania, 1 Tasman Highway – Hobart – Tasmania – Australia BCL Tasmania: http://www.tasbcl.com.au/design.html Hosted by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Australia and supported by the Regional Baha’i Council of Tasmania In the news [...]
With the recent dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial inspiring some to invoke his name in relation to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Phillipe Copeland in blogcritics talks about how “long term anger acts like a fossil fuel. It poisons the atmosphere of public discourse and wrecks the ecology of human relationships.” “Lasting, [...]
Bahereh L. Rastegar-Kashi, devoted to children’s spiritual education, served on national and local committees in Iran for Bahá’í education and advancement of women. She later pioneered for the Faith to Australia and the Cook Islands. She peacefully ascended to the Abhá Kingdom on August 13, 2011, at age 96. She resided most recently in Los [...]
Joan E. Lozier helped solidify the Venezuelan national Bahá’í community as a pioneer for the Faith and a member of the National Spiritual Assembly serving that country in the 1950s and ’60s. She later served the Cause in Michigan and over a wide range of the Southwest. Joan passed away August 30, 2011, in Cochise [...]
Read a beautiful tribute to the life of Violette Nakhjavani in this entry of Baha’i Blog.
Iran’s Repression Of The Baha’i Institute For Higher Education Continues As Draconian Sentences Enforced
In his blog Daysprings of Glory Glenn Franco Simmons shares his thoughts about the Baha’i persecutions happening in Iran.
Phillipe Copeland in State of Formation writes about the hunger game: “The game goes like this: Do I pay for medications or do I pay for food? Do I pay my mortgage or do I pay for food?” “The Baha’i Faith identifies hunger is one indication of a social order that has proven to be [...]
Cheryll Schuette, Baha’i Editor of BellaOnline, writes about the process of growth occurring through successive failures. “According to the theology of the Bahá’í Faith, God is a very good parent, indeed. Not that punishment is personal or even necessary, given a Creation that allows people to experience the logical consequences of–well–sin, for want of a better [...]
The Baha’i year consists of 19 months of 19 days each. The months are named after the attributes of God. Each Baha’i community holds a Nineteen Day Feast on the first day of each Baha’i month. The Feast has spiritual, administrative and social functions and is the primary locus of fellowship and community decision-making in [...]
Nathan Glines, Hannah & Leif Segen share eagerness to serve humanity
Process of learning and growth builds on considerable momentum of past five years
A process of community building is playing out in the first year of a new planning and action cycle
Baha’is in other parts of the cluster are catching the vibe from Spiceberry
The Central States Regional Baha’i Council is still in the early stages of developing strategies to advance the frontiers of learning throughout the region. But the Council says that underlying those strategies will be the vision of a guidance-based culture ensuring “all clusters in the Central States have advanced the pattern of growth and the [...]
Baha’is gain skills, put them into use and engage others in spiritual conversation so they can build community
Nineteen Months interviews C. Aaron Kreader, one of the authors of Zanjan, a fictional graphic novel based on the true events that happened in Zanjan, a town in northwestern Iran, in the mid-1800s. Read the Full Interview Zanjan was released by Baha’i Publishing and is available for purchase through the Baha’i Distribution [...]
Celebrating the Birth of the Bab – October 20 Baha’is celebrate the Birth of Baha’u’llah – November 12 “For centuries, all the peoples of the world have awaited the Promised Day of God, a Day when peace and harmony would be established on earth. The dawn of this new Day witnessed the appearance of not [...]
by Tracy Simmons, Freelance Religion Reporter For most people it wasn’t OK that Jack and Farzaneh Guillebeaux fell in love. In the 1960s, in North Carolina, a romantic relationship between a white woman and a black man was impermissible. Forbidden. But Baha’is have never seen it that way. Baha’u’llah once said that interracial marriages were [...]
“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies.” — Abdu’l-Baha Singer-Songwriter Adam Crossley continues to make beautiful harmonies throughout the country as he shares music from his latest single solo album, Anvil of a Heart. Along the way [...]
Declaration of belief is new stage in William House’s life of service
Cheryll Schuette, Baha’i Editor of BellaOnline, writes about the process of try, try and try again. “Persistence is required, through repeated failures, in order to succeed.”
Florida woman takes up slain fiancé’s spiritual search and finds peace
Prisoner writes, with out lights, half a mile underground He’s won the hearts of the murderous thieves he can’t see, that surround And the rain cries for him And the chains bind to him Like they’ll never see him again Like they’ll never know him again Like they’ll never hold him again Hold him again, [...]
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