Tag Archives: Faith

On the distinction between human beings and animals (via the Baha’i Faith)

April 25, 2009 – 11:17 pm

Are we animals or humans? What does the Baha’i Faith say about the nature of human beings and the difference between human beings and animals? I ask this question because back in college, the following view was very comforting to me: “Human beings are animals. Big-brained, language-using animals – but animals nonetheless.” I am not [...]

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Baha’i Scholarship: Translating Belief into Action

September 7, 2008 – 1:56 pm

Wow! After recovering from a rather painful sore throat + sinus congestion bug, it’s time to blog about the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies. Of course, I can’t do that justice in the five minutes available right now, so I’ll embed a clip of Badi, our homegrown hip hop hero, performing [...]

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