This is late in coming (the article is almost two months old now), but it’s about the current project being undertaken to refurbish the Temple in Wilmette: Epic Rehab Helps Religious Center Stay for Centuries.
Few buildings in the world have such an unusual maintenance program as the Bahá’í temple in Wilmette, Ill. “The Bahá’ís want […]
Need to find Baha’i activities in your area? Well, then maybe Baha’i Locations is for you. . . .
What is Bahá’í Locations?
Bahá’í Locations is a geographic locator for Bahá’í activities and landmarks. It easily allows you to find study circles, devotional gatherings, Bahá’í centers and many more Bahá’í locations in your neighbourhood or around […]
Though this doesn’t involve aliens, here’s another strange connections between the Faith and SF, an alternate history by Lavie Tidhar:
By 1947 Ford was dead, and his manufacture empire controlled entirely by the Universal House of Justice under Shoghi Effendi. Yet luck, or perhaps, as the Guardian often suggested, divine intervention, brought him face to face […]
So of course the plan was that I would drop the sheep and goats thing on you all, let you read the bit about the Baha’is bringing unification with the aliens from other planets and then post something reminding everyone that not everything written about the Faith is accurate or flattering, even when it comes […]
So the San Diego Reader has been doing this weekly thing called Sheep and Goats about the livestock religious community in the San Diego Area. Just a couple of days ago they added the Baha’i Faith to the growing list of churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and others. They exhaustively document every aspect of the religious […]
They were auctioning the personnal effects of Dizzy Gillespie in Morris Plains, New Jersey on Wednesday. Around $500,000 was raised in the all-day auction that included a ‘religious medallion that Gillespie wore around his neck to celebrate his allegiance to the Baha’i faith’ which sold for $3,500.
If you weren’t there then you’re out of luck, […]
If you haven’t heard yet, Dr David Ruhe, former member of the Universal House of Justice passed away on Tuesday at the age of 91. BWNS has a story up:
Dr. Ruhe became a Baha’i in Philadelphia in 1941, subsequently serving on numerous Local Spiritual Assemblies and national Baha’i committees. Elected to the National Spiritual Assembly […]
Bus 44, a film by Chinese-American writer-director (and Baha’i) Dayyan Eng is a moving portrait of both the dark and bright sides of human interaction. The film won awards at both the Venice Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese-language short film to win at both festivals. It was also invited to […]
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A sweet, sweet voice that's been wooing souls in Vancouver for a while now. Check for upcoming shows her myspace page or just head over to download some tracks. You won't be sorry.
While he's been profiled here already, Ferraby Lionheart certainly deserves all the praise that this meager blog can heap upon him as he's released an absolute gem of an album with his 'self-titled EP'.
Seattle hip-hop duo Common Market have been covered in this blog already but they definitely deserve a place in the sidebar. From a review in Seattle's The Stranger:
You could say the duo connected through a higher power. "We're both Baha'i; that's how I heard of Sabzi in the first place," explains Scion. "So being involved with the Baha'i community and doing music, people kept asking me, 'Do you know Saba?'" "Yeah, people would just be like, there's another Baha'i in town that 'does hiphop,'" Sabzi laughs. Once connected, Sabzi spun records at the release party for RA's debut EP Apostrophe—and the pair found that musically, they were on the same page.
You can find their music well, pretty much everywhere. Instant gratification types (such as myself) can get theirs from the itunes music store.
Whether singing a classic by the Supremes or exploring the limits of hip-hop, Zahyia Rolle, known as ZZ Rolle by her peers, is a performer who defies labels and defines the world "artist." Rapper, songwriter, actress, dancer, choreographer, producer - Zahyia only recognizes boundaries and limits long enough to cross them.
She was also a contributer to Boston Praise Collective's award winning album "From Exile to Exhaltation - Our Offering to Baha'u'llah" (also available on itunes). So drop by her website, download some tracks, and enjoy.
An invigorating blend of various Polynesian dances, rhythms and sounds fused with pop, MANA is a Baha'i music and cultural performance group based in Sydney, Australia. The members of MANA are predominately youth, most of them still attending high school, and though they are all residents of Sydney, their roots are traced back to Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.
To date, MANA has released 2 albums: Reflections on the Life of the Spirit and Arising To Serve. All lyrics have been taken from the Baha'i Writings found in the sequence of courses known as Ruhi Books, developed by the Ruhi Institute. There is currently a total of seven books in the sequence.
A few Baha'is in LA, USA are involved in this little musical effort.
In a music scene severly overburdened with manufactured screamo and whiney pop-punk, LA's Telecast is a glowing gem of ulterior hope. Remember the days when songs had meaning beyond some basic cloying variation of "I hate you, Dad," or "Nobody understands me and my skateboard?" So does Telecast.- From Filter Magazine
The Baha'is Magazine
A new version of a glossy 80-page magazine profiling the Baha'i Faith and its worldwide community has just been published. It features sections on Baha'u'llah, the spiritual and moral teachings of the Baha'i Faith, the Faith's history and administration, and its programs of social and economic development. It also has profiles of individual Baha'is and examples of community activities.
It can be ordered through the Baha'i Distribution Service in the United States.
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