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  • abdu'l baha plymouth - tribute to baha'u'llah

    A Tribute to Bahá’u’lláh

    This article tells the story of a moment in time. A small event, briefly told, yet one that still echoes through time and space. A few evenings ago the words from that event echoed in song in the Australasian Baha’i House of Worship in Sydney. Here is the story. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was travelling to the West. In October 1911 he reflected on his arrival in Paris, one of the first Western cities he visited: I regret much that I have kept you waiting this morning, but I have so much to do in a short time for the Cause of the love of God. You will not mind having waited a little…

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    September 14, 2017
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    The Oneness of Religion

    April 18, 2017

    Bahá’u’lláh on Human Rights

    July 6, 2017
  • 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] As Westerners began to join the Baha’i Faith early in the 1900s, it was clear that racism would need to be addressed, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’u’lláh’s eldest son, set out to do so. Indeed ‘Abdu’l-Bahá began this work from the earliest visits of Western pilgrims who came to see him in the early 1900s to learn about Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings. In 1911 he invited Louis Gregory, an African American lawyer, to visit him. The pilgrimage not only had a profoundly transformative spiritual impact on Gregory but provided opportunities for ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to stress…

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    Seven Heavens and Extrasolar Planets

    May 3, 2017
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    What is Law?

    September 3, 2017
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    Infinite Worlds

    September 27, 2017
  • Langston Hughes

    The Poetry of Langston Hughes

    Racism and problems of race relations continue to generate injustice and racial animosity around the world. The problem is not confined to any one people or country, but the case of the United States is better known in the English speaking world. The poetry of Langston Hughes comes from a period in which racism had reached a peak – what is known as the “Jim Crow” era. The United States civil war ended slavery, but it didn’t end racism. Gradually racism took a stronger hold in society and by the early 20th century it gave rise to toxic theories of racial supremacy and scientific racism. A fierce segregation was instituted between…

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    Gattaca dystopia: future, present or the past?

    October 10, 2013

    Alain Locke on Identity and Human Rights

    November 4, 2014

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: insights from its first draft

    October 21, 2014
  • Electing the President

    There is something fascinating about the “contest” which elects the President of the United States. The 2016 election is no exception. Candidates who weren’t imagined before the election year have come to the fore and with them the discourse and the “contest” has been thrown open. Issues of gender are right on the surface. And the fact that a women has never been elected as President is one of the issues. Gender issues are present in other ways. Women’s bodies and women’s rights have repeatedly surfaced as a political football. Issues of race are prominent, who is allowed to belong – who needs to be locked out. Who can claim…

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    The Anti-Immigration Era: What is going on in the United States?

    July 19, 2011

    It’s [not] a free planet

    August 7, 2011
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    Ekphrasis on Ekphrasis: Haegue Yang’s Changing From From to From

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  • Martin Luther King Jr – Civil Rights Leader and Peace Advocate

    Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life for the poor of the world, the garbage workers of Memphis and the peasants of Vietnam. The day that Negro people and others in bondage are truly free, on the day want is abolished, on the day wars are no more, on that day I know my husband will rest in a long-deserved peace. —Coretta King This article is part of a series on human rights forebears.  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived a life beyond the ordinary and writing about him is challenging.  His life made the world that came after him better.  This article will not do justice to his…

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    Do Foreigners Have the Same Human Rights as the Rest of Us?

    July 6, 2011

    We are One – Overcoming Racism: Part 2

    April 23, 2017

    Would you have me argue that all human beings are equal?

    August 21, 2011
  • Martin Luther King and Non-violence (Part 3 of 4)

    Martin Luther King thought deeply about the best methods to use to overcome the injustices facing African Americans. This in itself is an important observation. It is appropriate for us in the 21st century to also think deeply about questions of method. His speeches frequently describe and defend nonviolence as the method he felt was both effective and moral for the issues on which he worked. Sometimes the description was in response to criticism of the method as “too extreme”, at other times it was to reject the violence advocated by some. His explanations were patient and detailed. The basic steps of the method are outlined to his fellow ministers…

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    Love Your Mother

    January 8, 2011

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    July 6, 2011
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    December 15, 2016
  • Martin Luther King Jr. – What role did Christianity play in his civil rights advocacy? (Part 2 of 4)

    Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta Georgia, the second son of Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Martin Luther King Jr. was by vocation a Baptist minister. He was in the fourth generation of his family to take up this vocation. It is impossible to fully appreciate Martin Luther King’s work without understanding the role that Christian thought and inspiration played in his advocacy of human rights. Martin Luther King’s letter from a Birmingham prison to fellow Christian clergymen gives insight to the role his religious commitment played in generating and sustaining his commitment to work for justice. Further, the people from whom he came, the…

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    What does it mean to be human?

    October 1, 2014

    Australia Ratify Now: Migrant Workers Convention

    April 23, 2011

    Eleanor Roosevelt’s Prayer: A Vision of a World Made New

    October 27, 2009
  • Martin Luther King Civil Rights Leader and Peace Advocate (Part 1 of 4)

    Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life for the poor of the world, the garbage workers of Memphis and the peasants of Vietnam. The day that Negro people and others in bondage are truly free, on the day want is abolished, on the day wars are no more, on that day I know my husband will rest in a long-deserved peace.—Coretta King This article is part of a series on human rights forebears. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr lived a life beyond the ordinary and writing about him is challenging. His life made the world that came after him better. This article will not do justice to his contribution.…

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    June 22, 2015

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    September 22, 2016

    Martin Luther King Jr – Civil Rights Leader and Peace Advocate

    September 21, 2014
  • Would you have me argue that all human beings are equal?

    Frederick Douglass was a remarkable worker for human rights.  Although he lived more than a century ago, his thoughts remain pressingly relevant. He began life as a slave, but winning his own freedom, he fought not only for abolition of slavery but also gave his support to other human rights causes, such as the emancipation of women. Born in 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland, he was separated from his mother at an early age, he writes, as was typically done with slave children.  His father, he believed, was his mother’s master.  Even though it was against the law for slave children to be taught to read and write, Sophia Auld the…

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    August 7, 2011
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    June 30, 2011

    Do Foreigners Have the Same Human Rights as the Rest of Us?

    July 6, 2011
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