BAHAI COMMENT

By today you will probably have seen some version of this woman's profile, shared across many of the world's media during this past week....

Finding your way around anything when you're a 'newbie' can be quite daunting. It just takes a while to become familiar. I first came...

Once upon a time, our world had no borders. Until the mid-19th century, most of the world was just a sprawl of empires, of unclaimed...

So many of us share the dream of our human family living together as one. We write about it. Some of our most beautiful poems eulogise...

Although most nations in the western world of today claim to be 'at peace', that's not what our media show. Peace doesn't cause whole...

Did you know that many of your forebears were quite likely killed in a religious war in some place at some time? Conflict often resulted...

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...

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 whom 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...

One of my greatest intentions in creating this blog is to respectfully communicate with a global community, and hopefully contribute to a...

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...