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July 2015 Enewsletter July 2015 eNewsletter Celebrating Twenty Years Starting Today, and There's Still Plenty of Space! A new course on some of Baha'u'llah's earliest and most profound Web Talk No. 7: Susanne M. Alexander Discussing "Healthy, Unified Marriages as tablets Service to Humanity" on August 30 Mark your calendars now for a Web Gems of Divine Mysteries and Other Talk at the end of the summer by Susanne M. Alexander on the topic of Early Tablets by Baha'u'llah marriage as a service to humanity. Click here to continue>> One in a series of courses on the revelation of Baha'u'llah Web Talk No. 6 Now on YouTube: Lead Faculty: Robert Stockman Dr. Sandra Lynn Hutchison Offers a Technique Faculty: Daniel Gebhardt, Daniel Pschaida for Accessing the Meaning of the Bahá'í Revelation Duration of course: Seven weeks (July 1 - August 18, 2015) Read a summary of Dr. Hutchison's simple technique for finding the In Gems of Divine Mysteries and Other Early Tablets by "hidden gift" in the writings of Baha'u'llah we will examine the Javahiru'l-Asrar (Gems of Baha'u'llah, the Bab, and 'Abdu'l- Divine Mysteries), a mystic work similar to both the Seven Baha, and then treat yourself to Valleys and the Kitab-i-Iqan. We will also study several listening to the YouTube video of shorter but very important works by Baha'u'llah, Sahifiy-i- her talk. Shattiyyih (Book of the River), the Tablet of the Holy Click here to continue>> Mariner, Shikkar-Shikan-Shavand, and Lawh-i-Ayyub (Tablet of Job), all of which exist in official translation or reliable Anniversary Web Talks, August through provisional translation. We will read background about the December 2015 circumstances of revelation of the tablets, read the tablets To plan ahead for the Wilmette Institute's next six themselves, and discuss their contents. Web Talks honoring its twentieth anniversary, from August (Susanne Alexander) through December Course Description Fees Course (Dr. Michael Penn), click here for details on topics Schedule Register Financial Aid and speakers (as well as links to previous talks-with summaries of the talks and links to YouTube). Find answers about Baha'i dating, courtship, and preparation for Contributions to Public Discourse marriage Summary and Commentary on Laudato Si': The Becoming a Couple: Preparing for Pope's Encyclical on the Environment and Poverty Marriage In the middle of June Pope Francis released a long encyclical letter on Part of a series of courses on courtship and marriage the environment and poverty with the subtitle "On Care for Our Lead Faculty: Susanne Alexander Common Home." Dr. Arthur Lyon Faculty: Alex Blakeson, Hoda Kemp, Wendi Momen, Raymond Switzer Dahl, an expert in sustainable development and the environment, has written a summary and commentary on the Duration of course: Seven weeks (July 5 - August 23, 2015) encyclical, providing a good jumping-off place for examining the Catholic position on its material and Have you ever felt a bit baffled about how to navigate spiritual views on the topic. through friendship, dating, and courtship on the way to Click here to continue>> marriage? Have you ever had difficulty, considering the current state of our society, in trying to figure out how to Photographs Needed for an Illustrated History apply Baha'i principles to relationships? You are not of the Baha'i Faith in South Carolina alone! This short but powerful course will help you with a Dr. Louis Venters, associate professor of history at number of topics: How do you really get to know his/her Francis Marion College in South Carolina, has been character? Why is friendship vital as a foundation? What asked by The History Press to write a copiously does dating look like when you apply the Baha'i teachings illustrated book about the Bahá'í Faith in South to it? How do you choose a potential spouse? How can a Carolina. He has put out the word for photographs couple apply spiritual principles in courtship and move to illustrate the diversity of the Faith in that state. toward marriage? Learners do not need to be in a Read the fascinating story of how the request came relationship to benefit from this course. We encourage about. couples to register as a group. Click here to continue>> Course Description Fees Course Interconnected Business: How Organizations Schedule Register Financial Aid Can Improve People and How People Can Improve Organizations: A Report Study a key Bahá'í authoritative text in its new translation Treat yourself to an unconventional "read" of an unconventional report on an Some Answered Questions unconventional ebbf (Ethical Business Building the Future) One of a series of courses on the life, ministry, writings, and utterances of `Abdu'l- conference. Baha Click here to continue>> Lead Faculty: Christopher Buck Faculty: Susan Maneck, Shahrokh Monjazeb News Duration of course: Eight weeks (July 11 - September 4, 2015) Some Answered Questions consists of a series of questions that Laura Clifford Barney asked `Abdu'l-Baha over lunch in Acre between 1904 and 1906. The answers were recorded in Persian. `Abdu'l-Baha reviewed, modified, and approved them, thereby converting pilgrim's notes into authoritative Baha'i text. Barney herself undertook the task of translating them into English. The resulting classic Baha'i text appeared in 1908. Limitations in the translation have been a concern for some time, as Barney was not fully conversant with philosophical terminology. The translation, newly revised by a Committee at the Baha'i World Center, resolves many difficulties and brings the authoritative interpretations of `Abdu'l-Baha to an English-speaking audience with new clarity and precision. Course Description Fees Course Schedule Register Financial Aid A Bahá'í-Inspired Radio Station in Arizona: A course that will help you understand the spiritual implications of Volunteers and Equipment Needed the changes in the Baha'i calendar in 2015 See how you might help bring into reality an FM radio station to be located at the Desert Rose Bahá'í Institute in Arizona, a new facility designed to The Badi` (Baha'i) Calendar: provide information, education, and spiritual sustenance to underserved rural populations. Click here to continue>> Reshaping Our Material, Social, and Scholarship and the Bahá'í Faith: The Theme Spiritual Reality of the Spring 2015 Journal of Bahá'í Studies Another course in a series on Baha'i teachings on community and administration Read a short essay by Dr. John S. Lead Faculty: Robert Stockman Hatcher explaining how all Bahá'ís are Faculty: William Collins, Nicola Daniels, Mark Lutness exhorted to become students of the Bahá'í writings, whether through study circles in the Ruhi curriculum or Duration of course: Five weeks (August 1 - September 4, 2015) through higher levels of graduate study and research and also The Baha'i Faith has a unique calendar of 19 months of 19 introducing the contents of the Spring days each, plus 4 or 5 days of Ayyam-i-Ha to bring the length 2015 issue of the Journal of Bahá'í Studies. of the year up to a full solar cycle. Through this calendar, Click here to continue>> "sacred moments are distinguished, humanity's place in time and space are reimagined, and the rhythm of life recast." The UN Seminar on "Global Citizenship Education Universal House of Justice, in a letter dated July 10, 2014, for a Just, Peaceful, Inclusive and Sustainable has called "upon the Baha'is of the East and West to adopt . World" Held on June 15 . the provisions that will unite them in the common Co-organized by five UN permanent missions implementation of the Badi` calendar." The House of Justice (France, Korea, Nigeria, Qatar, the United States) has also fixed the start of the year on the first day of spring and co-sponsored by seven NGOs and UN as it occurs in Tehran. In Understanding the Badi` (Baha'i) Calendar we will organizations, including the Baha'i International consider the purpose and nature of calendars in general, the organization of the Community and UNESCO, the seminar "engaged Baha'i calendar (created by the Bab and called the Badi` calendar), the spiritual diplomats, UN officials, and civil society actors in a significance of the names of "the periods and cycles, months and days" in the dialogue on fostering global citizenship," according calendar, and the purpose and timing of Baha'i Holy Days. We will also compare the to a Baha'i World News Service press release. Baha'i calendar to the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic calendars. Daniel Perell, a representative of the Baha'i International Community to the UN, moderated the Course Description Fees Course Schedule Register Financial Aid second of two sessions. Click here; then click on "Meeting & Events tab; then click through; then click on June 15, "Global Citizenship for a Just." A survey of the history of the Baha'i Faith from 1863 through 2015 Save These Dates! An updated list of 2015 calls for papers, academic Baha'i History, 1863-2015 conferences, and webinars. Click here to continue>> Another in a series of courses exploring the history of a developing community Learners in Action Lead Faculty: Moojan Momen Faculty: Necati Alkan, James Harrison The Badi' (Baha'i) Calendar 2015: A Learner Duration of course: Seven weeks (August 15 - October 2, 2015) Shares How the Course Reshaped His Material, Social, and Spiritual Reality Baha'i History, 1863-2015, will explore the major themes of A learner from Wisconsin finds that the Badi' Baha'i history from Baha'u'llah's exile from Baghdad to the calendar is a way of tracking time and yet is outside second decade of the twenty-first century, emphasizing the time.
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