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Saying Grace

01/19/2008

by Kathleen Kettler Lehman

Saying grace before a meal is custom found throughout Christianity and in various forms in other religions, too. What about the Bahá'í Faith? Does it maintain this practice? The answer is a bit more complicated than one might think.

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The Meaning of Easter

03/22/2008

by Dale E. Lehman

In the Christian tradition, the holiest day of the year is Easter Sunday, the day that commemorates the most astounding event recounted in the Gospels: the rising of Christ Jesus from the dead. How do Bahá'ís view this event?

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The Hiding Place

02/02/2008

by Kathleen Kettler Lehman

I first read this classic narrative of life in German-occupied Holland not long after it was first published, in the early 1970s, while we were vacationing at a cousin's house. Corrie ten Boom's story of how she came to be part of the Dutch underground, how her family hid Jews from the Nazis, and how her family's secret eventually was discovered and they were sent first to prison, where her father died, and then to a concentration camp where her sister would die, made a great impression on my fourteen-year-old self.

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The Story of Bahá'u'lláh

03/15/2008

by Dale E. Lehman

Every religion begins with a story. The oldest religions tell stories overflowing with symbolism, profound yet probably far removed from actual history. More recent religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam tell stories that no doubt contain a mix of the historic and the symbolic. By contrast, the history of the Bahá'í Faith is fairly well-known and has been told many times in many ways.

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