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Hi Wil, the Bahai scriptures and the practice of Abdu'l-Baha includes the saying of grace, before and after meals, but this is not a prominent part of the practice of the Bahais in the West, thus far. Bahai practice is still developing, guided in part by the Bahai scriptures and in part by the...

Destruction of the House of Baha’u'llah: update July 17, 2013 In a message addressed to the Bahais of the world, the Universal House of Justice has stated: “… it was with utter shock and desolating grief that the Baha’is in Baghdad discovered on 26 June that the “most holy habitation” of...

The Sentinel Project, an independent Toronto-based NGO that focuses on genocide prevention, has recently launched a visualization of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. The Sentinel Project has deemed the situation of the Iranian Baha’is to be a “Situation of Concern.” It has previously...

I'm impressed by the quality of the answers here. The same question was asked on Yahoo Answers yesterday, and I posted: == Sufism is not a religion, it is the diverse mystic tradition within Islam. "Christian mysticism" is also not a religion, it is an approach to religion. The Bahai Faith...

Re: "How many a handmaid... proved superior to the men" I notice we have returned to the subject of the first quote in this thread. Some more quotes on the same topic: From the Writings of Baha'u'llah Today the Baha'i women (lit., the leaves of the Holy Tree) must guide the handmaidens of...

Prayers before and after meals are recommended by Baha'u'llah, in the Tablet of Medicine, and Abdu'l-Baha has given us several. Both he and Shoghi Effendi pronounced a verse before eating. See Words of Grace                   Sen McGlinn's blog on my blog for some examples and discussion of...

Today, officials from the Ministry of Intelligence have been entering the homes of many of the academic staff of the Bahai Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), a Bahai-run distance learning university that provides internationally accredited university education to Iranian Bahais, who are...

He has since been released on bail, after 11 days in detention. See Sen's Daily

Vajiollah Golpour, a 71-year old Bahai from the village of Safrabad-Sari in Mazandaran province, was arrested by security forces on April 28. Following his interrogation and torture he was led around the city of Tenakabon in shackles for two and a half hours, by security officials, in order to...

Re: It is our duty to investigate the essentials.. This is one of many places in the Bahai writings where "century" does not mean a hundred years, but rather the 'dispensation', the period from the beginning of a religion until the arrival of its 'promised One' (Messiah, Mahdi etc..)...

I've just blogged a translation of this tablet, with some notes. Further notes on the differences between the Persian sources will follow ASAP The short link is Abdu?l-Baha on religious law and the House of Justice Sen McGlinn's blog

Sentences of the 7 Yaran halved on appeal Sentences halved for the seven Bahai "Yaran" and other news The prison sentences of the seven ‘Yaran’ (helpers) have been reduced from 20 years to 10 years by the Appeals Court in Tehran. See Yaran’s...

Re: The full meaning of the Trinity according to the Bab One side note on this: not every essence we can imagine is in fact an essence. Some are just imagination, or rather fancy (using Coleridge's distinction between the primary imagination as the faculty that grasps essences, and the fancy...

Lord no, I have concentrated on the social teachings/ political theology, not on theology in the narrow sense. What I can say is that in theology and metaphysics, the Bab, Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha are on one line. I do admire "Gate of the Heart" very much: it makes some things in...

I think the definitions are good, and yes, the Bahai stance is in line with all 4 variants of religious pluralism. Pluralism is not syncretism - not at all. Pluralism is believing that the fruit salad and icecream belong on the same table as the curried chicken. Syncritism is putting curry in...

I don't think you've failed too terribly, if both your children have a lively interest in religion! Count that a rare success. Perhaps you need to hook into the online Bahai community more, to get the stimulus and support you miss locally. Try Planet Bahai ww w. planet bahai. org and Bahai...

I think you have passed from the resurrection of Christ, into eschatology, without noticing it. The question was about Bahai beliefs concerning the resurrection of Christ. The oldest strand of those narratives is that from Paul, on the road to Damascus, and I do not see anything bodily there. It...

I would be more optimistic if this did not come from al-Azhar, but say from Cairo university: better still, from a UK university. Al-Azhar is itself a substantial part of the problem, perpetuating ignorant and supersistious readings of Islam, condemning scientific studies of the Quran and...

?? What Bahai theologian denied the resurrection? I have never encountered that. Abdu'l-Baha's take on the resurrection ht tp:/ /reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/saq-23.html (remove the spaces) seems to be just the same as Paul's, which is the oldest strand of the resurrection narratives. The...

By developing a culture of learning, and a "civil society" of institutions of Bahai learning: schools, electronic libraries, publishing houses, discussion groups and organisations promoting various kinds of scripture study courses. Your question supposes that the development of religious...