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Scientists have a term for the all-too-human tendency to accept what supports our beliefs while rejecting any other information: they call it confirmation bias. You’ve heard that old saying “Don’t...

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As someone who was severely abused as a child, I grew up with a very warped sense of love.  The messages I received from my parents was that I was unlovable, and from my religion, that God was watching me at all times and was going to punish me, no matter what I did. When I […]

Click here to read Part 1: I Believe God Exists Those without a belief in God argue that humans come from nature – that no God exists, just a wondrously...

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Environmental protection, Pope Francis points out in his Laudato Si’ encyclical, cannot be assured solely on the basis of financial cost-benefit calculations. The health of the Earth, in other words,...

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Rachel Bayani has been appointed as BIC’s new Principal Representative, following Bani Dugal who had been serving in this capacity since 2003.

Do you ever complain? I sometimes find myself doing it, and then I realize I should work on eliminating all those negative and unproductive complaints from my life. We’ve all...

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The Devil: what power he holds over human thought! We have given him many names: Satan, Diablo, Prince of Darkness, Beast, and the Serpent. In human history we have envisioned...

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MEPs denounce Iran’s campaign against Bahá’ís as “persecution by design,” “a state-engineered crime against humanity,” and a “continuing pattern of tyranny.”

One of the greatest heroes of the Baha’i Faith, Mulla Husayn – the first to accept the Bab, the forerunner of the Baha’i revelation – came to his new belief...

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On a religious forum I ran across an essay on Baha’is and the United Nations in which a woman I’ll call “Jen” made a series of statements about Baha’i belief...

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I work voluntarily with the sick, and some of them have serious illnesses. Quite understandably, many patients and their loved ones suffer considerable anxiety.   It must be a huge...

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In this second installment, Moojan Momen explores how Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings reshaped early Bahá’í community life in Iran and inspired new forms of collective action.

Any realistic view of our present global situation must acknowledge that we are experiencing rapid political, social, and environmental deterioration.  Unfortunately, parallels to the storm clouds that gathered before World...

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We know how important it is to engage in meaningful conversations and I’ve long admired Rainn Wilson for his ability–not only to engage in meaningful conversations, which you can listen to him do time and time again on the Baha’i Blogcast–but also his desire to help spark that same depth of connection between other people […]

One day in my twin sons’ Baha’i-inspired children’s class I heard this quote from the Baha’i writings: “There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer.”  Nothing sweeter. ...

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The Baha’i teachings exalt the virtue of gratitude. In fact, when Abdu’l-Baha traveled to North America in 1912, the concept of gratitude emerged as one of the major themes of...

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BIC statement to African and European Heads of State and Government emphasizes implications of interdependence and expanding conceptions of progress and development.

Since the pandemic a few years ago, I’ve noticed a trend towards healing childhood trauma. Interestingly, at the same time, healing trauma has also become the topic of multiple conversations...

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The other day, reading the work of a Baha’i scholar who addresses the mystical quest as it’s understood in the Baha’i teachings, I hoped to learn new ways to deal...

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As a retired emergency medicine physician, I hold two key Baha’i principles close to my heart and my head: First, science and religion agree; and second, healing can be both...

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