Each Morrow Richer than its Yesterday
We all make mistakes. How we deal with our own mistakes and of those around us has important implications. Too often we stand in judgement of …
200th anniversary articles
We Are One – Bahá’u’lláh’s Teachings Against Violence
Human beings are not inherently violent. But that we have a problem with violence is undeniable. How many times have prophets, poets, philosophers and philanthropists …
Seeker
For me, it was like the lifting of a darkness of which I had previously been unaware. The lights were on; a new beauty and truth …
Solving Problems Beyond Solution – The Book of Certitude
The goal of Bahá’u’lláh’s entire life’s work, as he describes, is to foster unity among human beings. Of his writings, the Book of Certitude plays …
Women and Men Have Been and Will Always Be Equal
“Women and men have been and will always be equal in the sight of God.”[1] With these words, Bahá’u’lláh challenges the age old oppression of …
Bahá’u’lláh on Good Government
We live in a time of increasing distrust between citizens and institutions of government. Ordinary people seek solutions for what they experience as failures of government, …
How Bahá’u’lláh Came to Be in the Holy Land
It is a curious fact of history that it was the successive banishments of Bahá’u’lláh by the Ottoman Sultan, which finally led him to the …
We are One – Overcoming Racism: Part 2
As introduced in yesterday’s article, racism is entirely incompatible with Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings. Close your eyes to racial differences, and welcome all with the light of oneness.[1] …
We are One – Overcoming Racism: Part 1
While Bahá’u’lláh, a persecuted prisoner of the Ottoman Sultan, was promulgating his universal teachings of the oneness of humanity, wholly different and toxic doctrines were taking …