Month: May 2021



the utterance project

Engage with the Bahá’í Holy Writings in the original Arabic and Persian.https://theutteranceproject.com/Adib and Violetta will share stories about how they were inspired to start the Utterance Project, the aims and goals of this online initiative, and inspiring stories about the use of the Utterance videos in the field, from Bermuda to Kazakhstan! Read More

Mr. Michael Hampton

Mr. Hampton is currently an entertainment consultant, music producer, and executive producer, He is also a team member of the Third Coast Recording Company in Grand Haven, MI., and became a voting member of the GRAMMYs in 2010.In addition to his career in the entertainment industry, he successfully built an investment practice as a Vice […] Read More

Ms. Violetta Zein

Violetta Zein is an artist and graphic designer living in Pointe-Noire. She has given many talks on Bahá’í history in English and French here on the Clearwater YouTube channel and elsewhere and The Guardian is her fourth illustrated chronology. Read More

Mr. Adib Masumian

Adib received his Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, and his Master’s in Learning Technologies from that same institution in 2015, During his last year of graduate school, he spent a summer abroad in Jordan to study the fundamentals of Classical Arabic, with the goal of being […] Read More

Near Death Experiences? Comparative Analysis to the Holy Scriptures

https://bahaiteachings.org/near-death-experiences-really-tell-us/The Effects of “NDE” on Contemporary Attitudes about the Afterlife In spite of religious reassurances about the next stage of existence, it is easy to fall prey to prevailing attitudes regarding death. In the foreword to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s seminal work Death: The Final Stage of Growth, Joseph and Laurie Braga observe:… death is a subject […] Read More

Is there Life after Life?

What happens after death is perhaps the most interesting, the ultimate question upon which life’s other big questions revolve, including: What does it mean to be human? What is true reality? What is the purpose of life? This presentation will share some insights on this fascinating topic gleaned from the Baha’i writings. Read More

The Great Human Cycle

“When a cycle is ended, a new cycle begins, and the old one, on account of the great events which take place is completely forgotten, and not a trace or record of it will remain.”  “The cycle has arrived when racial prejudice will be abandoned by tribes and peoples of the world.The epoch has begun wherein […] Read More

Nabil Khodadad

Nabil L. Khodadad is a lawyer based in London and is a partner in an international law firm.  Read More

Social Construction of Baha’i Theology

Fundamental beliefs are probably the primary source for particular social actions and interactions. Therefore, it is necessary to understand these essential beliefs and insights to interpret and understand those actions and interactions properly. Theology is among the first religious education formed in previous religious periods, after 170 years of the Baha’i era; however, even the […] Read More