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Junior youth spiritual empowerment: Baha’i social action

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Last Saturday, the junior youth group in Lowell got together. We said a prayer, and then took a walk down by the canal, which had recently been emptied. M. talked about wanting to make the neighborhood better for her younger siblings and for the other children. Over [...]

Blog Action Day: Climate change, a Baha’i perspective

Today is Blog Action Day 2009, a day for bloggers all over the world to focus their collective work on a single topic. This year: climate change. Here at Anonymous Cowgirl, we’re continuing an examination of individual and institutional action, the Baha’i Faith, and how it all relates to climate change.

Training institute held at the [...]

On the connection between individual and social transformation

A study circle in the fields of Kamashi, Rwanda, in June 2004 (Copyright 2006, Baha’i International Community)

Therese over at the BIC Interns Blog posted on last month’s opening session of the UN Summit on Climate Change. She writes honestly about the speed with which political institutions have responded to climate change, and about the challenge [...]

A Framework for Learning about Baha’i Scholarship

In Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger discusses how groups of practitioners learn by pursuing a common enterprise. He defines practice as a shared history of learning — shared experiences of histories of participation and reification in the world. For example, the Baha’i world community is currently pursuing an enterprise of growth. Together, we are learning [...]