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 […]

Here’s a site created by a Bahá’í in the Netherlands called Bahá’í Thinking that presents an his personal overview of nine topics that he was often questioned about in relation to the Bahá’í Faith.

Bahá’í Thinking is my personal response to nine questions which were often posed to me: Bahá’í? - Utopia? - Religion? - God? […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

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 […]

You know, I just can’t leave this whole matrix thing alone. And now it seems that the Catholics are getting in on the act in the form or a new poster that “personifies the priest as a hero”:
“Just as Keanu Reeves fought against the powers of evil, a priest comes to help people fight against […]

You know, like any other community, religious or otherwise, Baha’is are often seen at their best. And other times, sadly, not so much. (windows media)

Nice little piece in The Salt Lake Tribune yesterday about one man’s somewhat scientific search for spiritual answers and his eventual discovery of the Baha’i Faith. Interesting to see this kind of thing in a newspaper…

Link

The ever slick and glossy One Mag has just opened its little corner store, to feed all of your One Mag cravings. Sadly, Bahaiblog has not yet opened its own one-stop-online-shop, so for the time being you’ll just have to write “bahaiblog” across your own white hoodies with a sharpie marker… and then send me […]

So here are a couple of stories about communities getting big, shiney, new Baha’i centres. Now, new Baha’i centres usually aren’t all that newsworthy, but then again, who am I to argue with The Washington Post? (free registration may be required)
The three-story cylindrical structure will be located along Route 7 in Sterling and was designed […]

The sajjadah 1426 (it’s year 1426 in the Muslim calender) is a prayer rug that, thanks to a little compass and a whole lotta high techmonolology, glows when turned towards Mecca.

Ok, so some enterprising young Baha’i geeks need to get on the Bahji-directional one of these toute-suite. My credit card is standing by.

Link (view Gizmodo)

This all sounds a bit shady in an Indiana Jones villain kind of way, but it seems that there is an organization (I oh so badly want to write “secret brotherhood”) that has collected materials (mostly water and soil it seems) from many holy and religious sites from around the world and has finally put […]

So when I started this blog, I set up a running search on technorati to let me know whenever people mentioned anything about the Baha’i Faith in their blogs. Both so that I could poach great ideas from other blogs and also so I could pass on all of the bloggity goodness to you. […]

Name aside, this new Atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) really shows just how connected we all are.
From the UNEP press release:
“Klaus Toepfer, UNEP’s Executive Director, said: “People living in San Francisco or London may look at these images of deforestation or melting Arctic ice, and wonder what it has to do with […]

Or at least such is the claim of the Rhythm Divine, a weekly radio program that serves as “a window into world sacred music and song, from temples and churches to the pop charts” on Australia’s ABC radio. And on June 1st they had a show about the music of the Baha’i Faith:
[that was] the […]

After reading yesterday’s post, I’m sure you’re all asking yourselves where you can your super-trendy religious wear in Baha’i colors and flavors. And because I am in tune with the wants and needs of the Baha’i blog readership, I shall bring you this slick little site with t-shirts and music and whatnot. And while you […]

Get ready for entry by troops, or maybe just entry by hipster-troops. The Houston Chronicle ran a story last week (that they pulled from the New York Times) about the new ‘hipness’ of faith. It seems that religion is the the new cool.
“I would wear this, you bet,” Blu, 23, said, scrutinizing his reflection in […]

Someone sent me a link to the Baha’i Association for the arts a couple of days ago. You should all go and have a browse around and see what these talented artists are up to (most of it seems a bit dated, but isn’t good art timeless?). Just to get you started, let me send […]