BAHAI COMMENT

The early history of the Baha'i Faith is enthralling. It has a cast of thousands including kings and queens, great poets and illiterate...

Lots of people get really aggravated when others don't see things in exactly the same way - THEIR way. But if we truly hope to live as...

Depending on where on our planet you live, the Creator of this existence - if you believe such a being even exists, and more and more...

Back when I was a pre-teen, our national statistics showed that pretty much everyone in my country was 'religious', except for a few...

If I asked you to tell me about a person in your life who you have deeply admired, does one come readily to mind? Often in my most...

So I’m lying on my bed in the warm summer sun, feeling blissed out by the music of Adele or Seals and Crofts, or maybe it was the...

One day, in a state of openness to the unexpected, I came across a new neighbour labouring in an unkempt vegetable garden. Her gardening...

As a child, I collected Christmas cards. One of my favourites was embossed in gold and depicted 3 camels mounted by richly costumed...

’God is dead’ exclaimed German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as far back as 1882. Today God has often become little more than an...

It's Déjà vu again, as they say. Once more I make a reference in my posts to the disputed aspects of Abraham's ancient family and, within...

In the space of just a few months, my fellow earthlings have found that we are no longer one another’s greatest enemy. This should be...

What a contentious subject my previous article on the place of Abraham as Father of Nations proved to be! When it was first posted (this...

Most people have had their own experiences of some misfortune putting an end to their plans.

How did the western world in which I was raised develop its expectations about gender roles? How was I expected to choose between the two...

It is only a few decades since genetic science established that we all belong to the same family, thus turning on their heads many...

My first and most important teacher was my mother to whom I will be forever grateful, although she struggled to convince me to eat...

Recently I learned of such a thing as a 'mini-nuclear warhead'. This sounds more cute and lovable than the large economy-sized one but,...

Today as Bahai's around the world celebrate The Festival of Ridvan – the holiest and happiest days of the Baha’i year and an auspicious...

......Beyond Tolerance. I began school back in the 50's when the education of all New Zealand children discouraged the language and...

Grown-ups often think that the process of communicating the most important truths in life must be through words, either written or...