I’m heading off for pilgrimage. So posting will be light non-existent for the next nine days. I’ll let you know how it goes.
If you can’t wait that long, you can go and download the entire pilgrimage video, and get a bit of an idea. That cute little Irish girl talking about the Shrine of […]

There’s a story up at the Duluth News Tribune about two sisters volunteering together in India:
With a spirit of adventure and a yearning to serve others as part of their Bahai faith, Rachael and Celeste Finn set off for India last fall.

For three months they volunteered, doing everything from teaching values to quieting noisy tourists […]

And along the same sign-up-for-all-kinds-of-bahai-internet-groups line of that last post, let me draw your attention to the we-want-Baha’i-in-our-profile myspace group. The goal of the we-want-Baha’i-in-our-profile group is, I’m sure you can imagine, to get-Baha’i-in-their-myspace-profiles (today is hyphen day here at Baha’i blog. As part of the dear-goodness-it’s-3am-and-I-should-be-in-bed theme of this post). If you’re a myspace […]

This is one of those ‘two birds, one stone’ kind of posts where I get to tell you that, first, all of you flickr users should make sure to sign up for the Baha’i group because, um… that would be rad. And secondly, that said Baha’i group is looking for submissions for a photo collage […]

So I was just thinking that I should put together a post to let you all know that I’ll be heading off on my Baha’i Pilgrimage next week and suddenly what should appear but this brand new video all about the pilgrimage experience, straight from the mouths of Baha’i pilgrims from around the world. Released […]

A new website put up by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation provides details of human rights violations in Iran in the form of a searchable database listing over 9,000 people who were murdered or executed by that government since 1979. There are 183 Baha’is on the list so far including Ruhu’llah Rawhani, a 52-year-old salesman […]

An email dropped onto my desktop the other day from reader Bryn Higgins:
I just wanted to spread the word that I have started a new blog called “Bahá’í Quotes Syndication Service”

URL: http://bahaiquotes.blogspot.com/
Feed Link: http://bahaiquotes.blogspot.com/atom.xml (just copy and paste this link into your RSS reader)

I just felt it would be nice to find a […]

Tabula Rasa is a new magazine “where art and spirit converge.”

Tabula Rasa has been created to celebrate the Creator in all of us, to express our pure wonderment and joy at God’s revelation of the word “Fashioner” and to explore its myriad meanings.

The Sun of Truth is the Word of […]

And so Baha’i blog begins it’s countdown to NEBY Fest 2006, the hottest most bo-dacious Fest there is (For those of you who, like me, are not from the east coast of the US of A, NEBY fest is the North Eastern Baha’i Youth fest and is, apparently, the largest youth conference in the US).
So […]

Ok, so this isn’t really an update, but I was pointed to a good source for some more background information. It seems that back in July a resolution was submitted to the US congress which expressed concern over the amount of US foreign aid provided to Egypt in light of that countries lack of political […]

Red Grammer’s newest album, ‘Be Bop Your Best’, has been nominated for a Grammy. Most of you little boys and girls probably know Red best for his 1986 release ‘Teaching Peace’ (I know I still have ‘Barnyard Boogie’ stuck in my head), but it looks like this album, which features a guest appearence by legendary […]

So a few months back I took a little trip to Uganda for a little fun and sun and Baha’i adventuring. While I was there I had the chance to meet up with an old friend, Joseph Sematimba. Joseph had been busy recording an album and shooting some music videos since last I had seen […]

I have no idea how I could have missed this, but it seems that today is World Religion Day! Started by the American Baha’is way back in 1949 to emphasize the common denominators underlying all religions, it’s celebrated every year on the third Sunday in January. So check the calendar for events in your […]

Someone sent me this photo of Khalil Fong accepting his “Best Male Newcomer (to the Hong Kong music scene)” silver award and I thought you all might like to see it. He, obviously, would be the up and coming chinese Baha’i R&B superstar in the middle. With the microphone. The one holding the award.

(Thanks to […]

Back on November 16, Kit Bigelow, the director of external affairs for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, addressed the Congressional Human Rights Caucus of the
House of Representatives in the US. She was there to talk about the situation of the Baha’is in Egpyt.
The most urgent issue that faces the […]

Up and coming R&B superstar (and current Baha’i superstar) Khalil Fong has his first album (with quotes from Baha’u'llah in the liner notes) out on Warner Music Hong Kong and was just, it appears, awarded a Silver award for being a ‘Best Male Newcomer’ to the HK music scene. Someone who reads more Chinese […]

Both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune (registration required) are running stories about the memorial service for Dhabihu’llah Mahrami held at the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette. Mahrami’s death last month in an Iranian jail where he was being held on charges of apostasy (abandoning Islam) brought international attention to the ongoing persecution […]

Sometimes these BWNS stories just give me the warm fuzzies. Here we have a Baha’i initiative in The Gambia to empower the people to create their own fancy blogs for the betterment of the world (I suppose they could actually get jobs too, but I think they’ll find the satisfaction they get from blogging beats […]

The new US Baha’i site has been up for almost a month now but I thought I’d make sure that everyone popped over for a look. The site itself is pretty slick and clean and they’ve got news and Podcasts to keep you coming back. You know, if they just had a link to this […]

The Reno Gazette-Journal has a great little piece about ‘peacemaker’ Trip Barthel, founder and executive director of the Neighborhood Mediation Center in Reno:
Unity of mankind is the fundamental tenet of the Bahai Faith, which Barthel said “plays a unique role in conflict resolution.”

“I think the future in conflict resolution is moving toward a Bahai type […]

In the we-need-to-learn-how-to-use-blogs-more-effectively catagory, here’s a quick post to point you to a brand new blog of Baha’i events from around the world.
Post #1 is a free concert in Banglore, India on the 4th of January. Anyone who might be in Banglore 2 days from now can check it out. Others may want to note […]