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My online correspondent, Jesse, was convinced that the Baha’i Faith is an example of syncretism, defined by the Oxford Dictionary this way: The Baha’i Faith, no less than other world...
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2d ago
“You mean trees die?” I asked my mom when I was five. How could something that big, that majestic, cease to grow? “Sure,” she answered. “Everything that lives has to...
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3d ago
We live at a propitious time in human history — in fact, the Baha’i teachings say, this is the period foretold by all the religions of the world when two...
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4d ago
The gentle breeze from the Tigris river, that love-laden air, pregnant with the melodic tone of acquiescence like the sweet-smelling zephyr wafting from Sheba, carries the glad tidings of the...
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6d ago
For more than a century now, science has assured us that our universe began about 14 billion years ago with a Big Bang — but some of the newest science...
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1w ago
The Baha’i writings say that humanity “is possessed of two realities, as it were: a reality connected with the senses which is shared in common with the animal, and another...
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1w ago
When we live in cultures that increasingly insist on solely material conceptions of reality, then we’re defined only as material beings, and that limited definition excludes a huge part of...
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1w ago
The essential teachings of all the great Faiths, the Baha’i teachings affirm, are in harmony. As a demonstration of that fact, I shared these eerily similar scriptural passages with my...
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1w ago
Since the dawn of the scientific age, humanity has learned a great deal about our universe — but our slim knowledge parades in front of massive ignorance. Most of the...
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1w ago
Have you ever heard of the German word sehnsucht? I hadn’t, either. When I first heard it, I imagined it as the name of a German sewing machine company —...
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