Today is International Women’s Day. Celebrated since 1911, It’s commemorated by the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. And wouldn’t you know it? The ever-industrious US Baha’i website has a few stories up to mark the occasion including a profile of the late Patricia Locke, who was inducted into [...]
Quick post about an article up on SouthCoast Massachusetts News about Dr. Iraj Mottahed’s recent trip to Mongolia as part of the Mongolian International Physician Exchange:
According to Dr. Mottahed, the Baha’i faith is growing in Mongolia, and women, in particular, are receptive to the religion which promotes the unity of all mankind. Having been under [...]
I can’t say that I really know what to make of this column by ordained minister George Plagenz in the Martinsville Reporter-Times. Little more than a book report for William Sears’ ‘Thief in the Night’, the column runs back over Sears’ investigations into the Great Disappointment and his subsequent discovery of the Baha’i [...]
Ok, so since I got in so much trouble for keeping Baha’i Views to myself for so long, I guess I’d better share a few more baha’i blogs that I read:
doberman pizza. a baha’i blog. is the first Baha’i blog that I read and still one of my first stops every morning.
The adventrues of [...]
Alright, I’d better come clean: Back in January the wondrous magical internet dropped a blog into my rss reader called Baha’i Views - Pithy excerpts on the issues of of the day. So I checked it out. And it was cool, but I was really thinking: fine fine, another new years resolution blog that’s [...]
Just a quick post to respond to San who wrote in asking about prayers for fasting online. Well, you can find the entire US prayer book (which, of course, includes a few prayers for the fast) at the the Baha’i refernece library or you can just dowload the whole book as a [...]
Cinequest Online is currently hosting a movie made by a Canadian Bahá’í called Glorious Sacrifice. Here is the synopsis from the site:
A Canadian artist, a native of Iran, examines short letters from a father whose accounts were secretly passed on by a sympathetic guard in the prison. By painting an expression of the ordeal, the [...]
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For those of us who came into the Baha'i Faith through the ever popular Kubaya flavored route, the Dawnbreaker collective comes flying out of left field and knocks us on our asses. And while more and more artists are pushing "Baha'i Music" to new areas, the Dawnbreaker Collective were still the first to toss out the Baha'i folk songbook. Grab their music direct from them, from Amazon, or on itunes.
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 'Catch the Brass Ring'.
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.
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.
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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