Bahá'í Blog

Over the years it’s been really exciting to see Baha’i Blog team members branch out and launch initiatives so I’m super thrilled to chat with Naysan, whose enthusiasm, passion and stick-with-it-ness has brought many, many projects into fruition. He has encouraged and accompanied countless friends to take their artistic pursuits to the next level. I […]

Hi friends! We’ve been hollering it from the virtual rooftops so we hope you’ve noticed that our co-founder, Naysan, has launched a new sister channel to Baha’i Blog called Baha’i Inspired! It’s very exciting news!! Baha’i Blog has been running for almost 14 years and in that time we’d like to believe that we have […]

Nava Revalk and Kian Jones are hosts of a delightful and insightful podcast series dedicated to relationships called That Married Couple. In this interview they tell us how the podcast came to be and what food for thought they hope it offers! Can you please tell us a little bit about yourselves? Hello! We’re Nava […]

Hi everyone! I wanted to let you know about an awesome new Bahai-inspired YouTube channel I’ve created called–yep, you guessed it–BAHA’I INSPIRED. BAHA’I INSPIRED is kind of like a sister to channel to Baha’i Blog, but we’ll just be focusing on YouTube videos and since I’m based in the US right now, it’ll have more of […]

Boris Handal has written a new biography of Quddus, the most prominent disciple of the Bab and the 18th and final Letter of the Living. Titled Quddus: The First in Rank, this is the first time a comprehensive biography of Quddus has been published in English and I’m delighted Boris was able to tell us all about it! […]

They say writers work off a limited number of obsessions and I’m afraid this might be true: I’ve been reflecting about how much we have to learn from what Abdu’l-Baha said, and how He said it, for many years and it’s a theme I keep (sometimes inadvertently!) coming back to. For example, in anticipation of […]

Choral singing is a fantastic activity that brings much elation and joy. It also builds strong community bonds. The more we develop our choral skills, the better we sound as a choir and the deeper our enjoyment and sense of fulfillment of contributing to a beautiful whole. Abdu’l-Baha emphasises how choral singing brings rapture to […]

The dynamic duo of Susanne M. Alexander and Johanna Merritt Wu have collaborated once again to create a conversation-generating book called Relationship Talk. Susanne is a relationship and marriage educator and coach. Johanna is an organizational psychologist who specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, corporate mergers, and teamwork. Together, they have produced a new resource […]

Hi friends! Here’s a little behind-the-scenes secret of being part of the Baha’i Blog team: it isn’t always easy to balance what’s shared on Baha’i Blog and community life. I meant to finish this newsletter several days ago, but I got swept away in with preparing celebrations. This year, my community is learning about what […]

I had the pleasure of meeting the Schoenfeldinger family from Austria at this year’s EBBF conference and to learn about a virtues game designed by Dagmar Schoenfeldinger called Tugi-Wugi. Isn’t that a great name? I was touched by how tight and close the family was–perhaps this is testament to the power of playing family board […]

Once, when I was in my tweens, my dad warned me against the “supermarket” model of belief. “Many people think you can just pick and choose what beliefs feel good to you and live your life without problems,” he said.  “Aren’t people supposed to choose their beliefs?” I asked. “I thought Baha’is believed in free […]

The United Nations recently held its landmark Summit of the Future to address pressing global challenges and to chart a course toward a more peaceful and sustainable world. I find this particularly fascinating as aren’t we all having, on some level, conversations about the future? About our hopes and dreams? About the world we want […]

Often we befriend people who share our own views of the world. Perhaps this is only natural, “like attracts like,” but now we have social media algorithms that help to choose our friends for us and feed us information that we are agreeable with. But there is so much richness that comes from interacting with […]

Alhan Rahimi has been incredibly prolific in producing colourful and engaging books for young children about Baha’i holy days and in this interview she shares with us all about her book dedicated to the Birth of Baha’u’llah and His childhood. Can you tell us a little about The Birth of Baha’u’llah? This children’s book is […]

In the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha we read: “O living flame of heavenly love! Thine heart hath been so fired with the love of God that from ten thousand leagues afar its warmth and radiance may be felt and seen.”1 And the illustrious Master also gave us this prayer: “Gladden the bosom wherein the fire of […]

The springboard for this monthly reflection is the following song in Hungarian based on a passage from The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah exhorting us to bring ourselves to account each day. Reflecting on the song made me wonder what other videos, articles, talks and podcasts we might have on Baha’i Blog in relation to the […]

I’ve been reflecting recently on the architecture of hope. I am curious about the internal resources that allow some individuals to maintain an abiding and unshakeable sense of hope through extended periods of personal and collective hardship and suffering. A number of news articles, stories and personal experiences in the lives of my loved ones […]

Did you know there are passages of the Baha’i Writings pertaining to the importance of farming and that we can learn from Abdu’l-Baha’s example as a farmer? It’s something I know very little about so I was intrigued when we published this short video by Flavio Azm Rassekh called “Unrestrained as the Wind: Abdu’l-Baha and […]

As we enter the month of Might, I’ve been thinking about Abdu’l-Baha. Perhaps it’s because I’m knee deep in a small project that commemorates His Passing but I thought I would share some recent resources we’ve published and promoted on Baha’i Blog related to the Most Mighty Branch. I love historical narratives and so I […]

I consider myself quite the optimist. I like to tackle my days with a can-do attitude, even if the odds are against me. When I was younger, I remember finding four planks of wood and an old rubber mat lying around our shed, and thinking to myself, “I’m going to build a swimming pool.” I […]