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06/01/2007
As our daughter Elizabeth graduates from high school and pursues a music education, we pause to reflect on the parallels between the art of music and the art of living.
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04/27/2007
Our thought, 'Abdu'l-Bahá says, is our reality. This affirms our spiritual nature, but goes well beyond it to speak of how we actually create reality and testify to truth in our lives.
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04/06/2007
One of the trickiest concepts in religion is spirit. Although we often talk about spirit, do we really know what it is? 'Abdu'l-Baha's Writings can give us a clue, and the answer may surprise you!
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01/19/2007
Is faith belief in what cannot be seen? Is it opposed to knowledge and evidence? These are common definitions today, but it wasn't always so. 'Abdu'l-Bahá offers a very different definition of faith.
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Another Disaster Tries to Loom
10/17/2009
Not one, but two doomsdays are in the offering. One is the celebrated 2012 date, based on speculations about the Mayan calendar. The other is a prediction about the Rapture, which some say will happen in 2011. Is there any value in such predictions? Any reason to worry? And how, if at all, do such prophecies fit in with the Bahá'í Faith?
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The Tablets of the Divine Plan
03/08/2008
Written in 1916 and 1917, 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan provide the foundation for the spread of the Bahá'í Faith around the world. In their details, these Tablets go to the core of all religious belief.
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01/26/2008
We are often asked why Shoghi Effendi chose to translate Bahá'u'lláh's Writings in a style similar to the King James Bible instead of a more modern form of English. Reading such translations can be challenging, but there are things you can do to make it easier. Here are some suggestions.
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11/16/2007
Unemployment brings with it many uncertainties. Yet as with all circumstances in life, there are lessons to be learned in the course of dealing with it, lessons such as detachment and trust in God.
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07/27/2007
As technology advances, it seems that it is put to almost as much evil as good. Can we curb this tendency? Is technology itself to blame? Or is the problem more spiritual in nature?
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03/30/2007
Religion and music have always gone hand-in-hand, although sometimes religion has censured music. How does the Bahá'í Faith regard music?
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03/23/2007
Community is often defined in terms of location or interests and interactions. An online community such as Planet Bahá'í operates under a slightly different definition. Here's your chance to offer your thoughts on our online community as part of an upcoming Bahá'í conference presentation.
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10/27/2006
One winter day in France during World War I, Loulie Albee Mathews and her companions watched from a window while several soldiers worked to change a tire on their car. But when several of the observers went down to lend a hand, the soldiers and car had vanished without a trace. Even the snow yielded no sign of their presence. What had happened to them? When Loulie asked 'Abdu'l-Bahá, He replied...
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06/23/2006
Materialists advance three primary reasons for not accepting God's existence. One of these is that the concept of a God is simply not needed to explain the world around us. Religionists counter with ideas such as "intelligent design". But is the materialist supposition valid to begin with?
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01/13/2001
What's more important, the Messenger or the Message? Actually both. The Bahá'í teachings are important, but so is a heart-felt relationship with Bahá'u'lláh.
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05/14/2000
I've asked you for your "How I Became a Bahá'í" stories. Now here's mine, a tale involving fundamentalism, Zen and a very patient wife.
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