How does an artist depict the human spirit’s journey? The Austrian Baha’i artist Claus Mayrhofer, who adopted the artist’s name Barabbas, attempted to do just that throughout his career. Barabbas...
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A group within my community has asked me to give a talk about social justice. While pondering and researching this concept, I‘ve concluded that justice cannot exist until people realize that there’s more...
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Often, when women of color are vocal about discrimination, they become the targets of hostile sexism and are tone policed or silenced. And, if you were a Black woman during...
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As I keep writing about my experience here in the nursing home, and as I keep proceeding daily toward my passage to the next world, and as I keep putting...
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Idealists — people who have noble ideals they’d like to realize in themselves and in the world — will definitely experience some disappointment in life. We idealize our parents or...
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How did you learn what love is? Did someone teach you? I have been reading bell hooks’ book “All About Love.” The deeper I delve into it, the more certain...
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A friend of my family just retired from her job after working at the same place for over 35 years. Though I suppose this is not an unusual thing to do, most...
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Dying isn’t easy. That may sound strange, but it’s true. I feel too tired, and I lack sufficient energy, even though my blood pressure seems normal. Maybe my body, in...
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Each of us has a set of personal ideals — our inner values, the concepts and beliefs we hold dear, and our vision of ourselves as ethical and principled beings....
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Many of us go through life without a sense of faith in anything greater than ourselves or our families. But increasingly, research shows that faith in a higher spiritual reality...
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During a discussion of the meaning of a “personal God,” I introduced my anti-theist friend, Ari, to the Baha’i concept of a manifestation — a prophet or messenger sent by...
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A few words of advice and inspiration: That’s what my co-workers and I were asked to share with the young people we work with in New York City. They’re between...
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It doesn’t seem to matter whether I’m listening to the car radio, streaming news on my tablet, watching a current affairs program on TV, reading newspaper articles, or skimming journals and blogs...
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I was just informed that one of my long-term friends, a Baha’i sister, winged her flight to the next world today. What a blessing! No more pain, fear, or suffering...
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The Baha’i Faith offers a promise of boundless hope to this darkened world. In a speech he gave in New York City in 1912, Abdu’l-Baha linked this boundless hope to...
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In a Baha’i prayer, we ask God to fill up our “cup of detachment” and break us off from “the shackles of this nether world.” Shackles, chains that prevent us...
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As a young adult, I respected those who worked in governing roles. Given my upbringing and education in both the Baha’i Faith and in America, I saw them as contributing...
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The Baha’i Faith is unique in many ways, one of them being the vast wisdom contained in its holy scriptures — all of the writings of The Bab, Baha’u’llah, and...
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I’m an artist, so I want to briefly share my understanding of how art has and will increasingly have a powerful role in the world-changing process of the Baha’i revelation. ...
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When I tried to pay for my coffee this morning, I was told it had already been paid for. The cashier then pointed to a woman near the exit and said that...
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