This is still in the planning stages, but it’s at least garnering positive attention: a Bahá’í is Ontario planning to create a new Bahá’í-inspired university:

The plan is to build “a learning environment that is informed by and consistent with Baha’i-inspired principles. . . .
Required courses on the proposed curriculum include: learning and its applications, scientific […]

This is just too funny (which is fitting since there’s a comedian involved), but it seems that poor Omid Djalili creates a vortex of inorthography around him wherever he goes. As noted in an earlier post, Djalili was identified as a “Bajai” on an HBO comedy special, and now The Daily Telegraph, in an otherwise […]

This one is for any Firefox users out there — someone has contributed a plugin to the search bar for the Bahá’í Reference Library, so you can search the entire site just by using the drop-down menu in the browser.

I was going to write one for the main bahai.org page, but its search method isn’t […]

This is a few days too late for anyone to actually make it to the show, but Seattle’s own The Stranger ran a story about collaboration between two Bahá’í hip-hop artists, RA Scion and DJ Sabzi (of Blue Scholars), into a group they call Common Market. The story focuses mostly on the music, but does […]

Science and Theology News has a story about a conference in Boston organized by the Association for Bahá’í Studies. The article also has a sidebar link to a related article, “What is Bahá’í?”, as well as some other links. The story focuses mainly on the attempts by Bahá’í scholars (guided by the teachings of their […]

Have a little trouble understanding the whole Huqúqu’lláh thing (and no, I’m not just talking about the pronunciation)? Well Panacea Film Productions, a brand new video production company that aims “to support and promote social development projects and the advancement of moral education through the media” has come to your aid with a new […]

A question that is no doubt on everyone’s lips: What would Jesus blog? was recently addressed at a gathering of “God bloggers” in La Mirada, California. Tackling issues at the nexus of faith, politics and cyber-self-publishing, the blogerence brought together 135 Christian bloggers from across the country to reflect on their role at the forefront […]

Well would you check us out. As part of a blog-evaluation paper for course Si-689 at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, we made the short-list of Baha’i blogs that may, possibly, be featured in this academic document! woohoo! And he even called us semi-formal!

Here’s a story about Wake Forest University athletes who were the first to black players to play in Clemson’s “Death Valley” (the nickname for its stadium), in 1964. They recently returned to Clemson to support a program “designed to guide black males into teaching positions at South Carolina elementary schools.” One of them, William Smith, […]

The latest issue of One Country has just been posted on its web site and is available in HTML or PDF form. One Country is the the quarterly newsletter of the Bahá’í International Community; here are the articles from the latest issue:

At the UN, governments and civil society try a new mode of interaction
Veteran actor […]

Here’s a short but nice feature about the Bahá’í association at Indiana University. It’s quite positive, despite this wacky phrase: “The faith projects the existence of one spiritual leader among all religions.” I don’t even know what that means, let alone how it relates to Bahá’í doctrine.

Roll out the red carpets and throw another shrimp on the Barbie! (will you australians ever get tired of that joke?) To kick off the mad rush to get films screened in time for the Oscars, the Harmony Film Festival (formerly the Australian Baha’i Film Festival) will be screening its 14 finalists (from a total […]

Omid Djalili, one of only a handful of Bahá’í stand-up comics, was recently featured in his very own One Night Stand on HBO.

Unfortunately, in the interview that’s featured on his HBO page, they’ve misspelled Bahá’í as “Bajai.” It’s disappointingly sloppy journalism, but it’s even more mystifying that out of all the people involved: […]

BWNS has published a story about the statement of the Bahá’í International Community for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, The Search for Values in an Age of Transition:

“It is clear that none of the problems facing humanity can be adequately addressed in isolation from one another,” the statement says.

“The increasingly apparent interconnectedness of […]

Speaking of Bahá’í publishing, here’s an article in the Rockford Register Star about dealing with sexual abuse through faith that feature’s Phyllis Peterson’s book Healing the Wounded Soul:

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Peterson recounts in clear and helpful detail the source of her deep shame, the difficulties she encountered in developing as a […]

Bahá’í Publishing is a (relatively) new imprint of the United States Bahá’í Publishing Trust, and its mandate is to publish a wide range of books for the public to introduce the Bahá’í community, and the teachings and history of the Faith to the public.

It has recently launched a new web site with information about its […]

From the Monitor, a daily newspaper in Kampala, Uganda:
I read somewhere about elections in the running of affairs of the Baha’i faith. It says that Baha’is actually have an election-based system that operates in contrast to current political systems. Elections are by secret ballot, and no nominations or campaigning are allowed.

People are expected to […]

All of you (students especially) please drop what you’re doing and check out this site, put up by the Universal House of Justice Baha’i International Community to highlight the denial of higher education to Baha’is in Iran.
Apparently in response to this pressure, the government officially announced in late 2003 that it would drop the […]