Baha'i Coherence: 2011-06

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Discovering Collaboration

Imagine millions of drops of water trying individually to reach the ocean, seeping inch by inch through the soil. It would take ages for them to get there. However, when drops join with other drops they gather momentum and carve…

Feast Communities

My previous post about Monkey Brains discussed the value in decentralizing Baha'i communities as they get too big, to allow for more growth. In the comments I got an earful from people bemoaning the loss of a larger community, "If you…

Hidden Saga: Forgiveness

We tend to forget whole sagas of ourselves. Either they get pushed away, or there is an ever so subtle change in focus and they drift, leaving behind some residue of opinion on the matter. Then one day, in a sudden, inescapable, and…

Why should we REALLY care about poverty?

Cross posting from www.omnesunum.blogspot.com Why should we REALLY care about poverty? I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately as I read Yunis’ Banker to the Poor, and Sachs’ End of Poverty. I’m not trying to argue that we shouldn’t…

Baha'i Faith as Derivative?

Mavaddat wrote: "Dr. Shelly Kagan energetically refutes the idea of an eternal or metaphysical soul that lives beyond the body through a series of lectures to his undergraduate class. Since 'Abdu'l-Bahá was working within an Islamic…

If I Had a Letter

Here are some new lyrics for a familiar song--Pete Seeger's " If I Had a Hammer"If I had a letterI'd read it in the morningI'd read it in the eveningAll over this landI'd read about coherenceI'd read about community-buildingI'd read about…