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New landscaping work in the vicinity of the Mansion of Mazra‘ih now allows visitors to experience the tranquil spirit long associated with this Holy Place.

Achieving our true spiritual station and practicing justice is a tall order, and will be extremely difficult to achieve without prayer. Prayer has the power not only to transform our...

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Have you ever wondered why you exist? Of course you have – that question occurs, at some point, to all of us. Science asks it, too, usually in this macro...

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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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Communing with God means to live a life of prayer and meditation. But it is not just daily prayer and meditation while quietly seated; it also includes contemplation while we...

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The reputation of traditional organized religion has become so stained and tattered that we now commonly hear many people reject all religion, or describe themselves as “spiritual, but not religious.”...

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These days, more and more people are identifying with the term “feminist” to show their support for women. While there is an increased popularity in being a feminist and proclaiming...

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The opening of the school in Zambia reflects a community’s evolving understanding of how spiritual principles can guide collective action to address shared challenges.

Donna Rae Price has authored a four-book science fiction series for teens and adults called The Sundering! The books take place nine hundred years in the future, where “a peaceful but struggling humanity reaches out from Earth, looking for planets, looking for people, looking for their place in the galaxy.” A couple of years ago, […]

On August 26th, the day in 1920 when the United States certified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, Americans observe Women’s Equality Day....

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The biggest and most important part of identity formation involves choosing the inner values we decide to emphasize and develop. Those choices start with a flock of inner questions like...

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The Baha’i teachings identify six essential elements for spiritual growth — the daily practices that will facilitate our spiritual development and can also be used in our search for meaning,...

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I considered myself “middle class” as a child, although I lived in a mobile home for a few years. Still, I had a roof over my head and food on...

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Baha’is belong to the world’s newest major Faith, founded by Baha’u’llah, a 19th Century Persian mystic, prophet and prisoner who taught the unity of all nations, races and religions. The...

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The Bahá’í Chair’s oral history project, grounded in the principle of the oneness of humankind, shares accounts of resilience amid inequities that continue to shape lives