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June 2015 Enewsletter June 2015 eNewsletter Celebrating Twenty Years An opportunity to study the basics of the Baha'i Faith systematically, whether you are seeker, new Dr. Sandra Lynn Hutchison To Be believer, or Featured in Sixth Wilmette Institute a veteran Baha'i Twentieth Anniversary Web Talk on June 7--"Windows on Divine Wisdom: Accessing the Meaning of The Baha'i Faith: A the Baha'i Revelation" Sign up now for faculty Comprehensive Introduction member Dr. Sandra Lynn Hutchison's Web Talk entitled One of a series of courses on world religions and scriptures "Widows on Divine Wisdom: Accessing the Meaning of the Lead Faculty: Robert Stockman Baha'i Revelation." She will be discussing Faculty: William Collins skills that will help us find gifts hidden in the Word of God and how to become Duration of course: Eight weeks (June 1 - July 26, 2015) engaged and enlightened readers of the texts. The Baha'i Faith: A Comprehensive Click here to continue>> Introduction offers a thorough and systematic study of the Baha'i religion. We Web Talk No. 4, with Dr. Christopher will start with a review of the vastness of Buck, Offers Ideas for Engaging in the Baha'i Faith's authoritative texts, which Public Discourse in Interfaith sets it apart from other religions. In Settings and on the Destiny of subsequent units we will examine the America fundamental concept of unity and its Understanding the myths and visions of implications for creating community, reforming the world, and America held by dominant and minority reconceptualizing such subjects as leadership, politics, and religions in the United States provides an conflict; the nature of God, revelation, Manifestation, humanity, unexpected source of information that creation, religion, and the Baha'i Faith's relationship to other will enable you to engage in public faiths; the nature and spiritual development of human beings and discourse on current social issues and the role of marriage and family life; and the Baha'i approach to world peace and in interfaith dialogue. reorganizing the social life and civilization of the human species. In Click here to continue>> the historical section of the course we will examine the development of the Baha'i community from the time of the Bab Web Talk No. 5, Dr. Moojan Momen's (1844) to the present, considering the development of new Baha'i Discussion of "The Re-Creation and institutions and the Faith's focus on several important priorities: Utilization of a Community's diversity, geographical spread, and empowerment of the Memories," Shows How Shoghi membership. The course is suitable for inquirers wishing a basic Effendi Rallied North American overview, new Baha'is desiring a chance to explore the religion Baha'is to Succeed in His they have accepted, and veteran Baha'is wishing to refresh and Plans deepen their understanding. You are in for a mind- expanding treat as you explore Course Description Fees Course with Dr. Momen how Shoghi Schedule Register Financial Aid Effendi recreated and utilized the North American Baha'is' memories of the Dawn-Breakers to rally with the An in-depth introduction to the religion from which needed heroism, self-sacrifice, and the Baha'i Faith sprang perseverance to spread the message of Baha'u'llah around the world, winning the right to be called the spiritual Islam for Deepening and descendants of the Dawn-Breakers. Click here to continue>> Dialogue Anniversary Web Talks, August One of a series of courses on world religions and scriptures through December 2015 To plan ahead for the Wilmette Institute's next six Web Talks honoring Lead Faculty: Susan Maneck its twentieth anniversary, from August Faculty: Necati Alkan, Lil Abdo Osborne (Susanne Alexander) through December (Dr. Michael Penn), click here for details Duration of course: Seven weeks (June 10 - July 29, 2015) on topics and speakers (as well as links to previous talks--with summaries of the In Islam for Deepening and Dialogue talks and links to YouTube and we will begin with a survey of the life of Podcasts). Muhammad, a Manifestation of God, and a review of the origins, development, and Age Is No Barrier--A Senior Reflects, content of the Qur'an, including the Takes Action, and Keeps on teachings and practices of Islam. We will Teaching: Celebrating the Wilmette then examine the Sunni/Shiite split over Institute's Twentieth issues of succession and authority and Anniversary discuss Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, and You won't want to miss the the Sufi poetic tradition. Finally, we will comments of this senior on turn to contemporary Islam and to Islam and other religions, how Wilmette Institute courses including the Baha'i Faith. With ongoing anti-Islamic sentiment have enriched her life during throughout the world, there is no better time to improve our the past five years as she refreshes her understanding of one of the world's most important and influential memory, makes herself relevant, and religions and to prepare for discussing it with Christian and Muslim keeps on teaching at way past sixty-five. friends and neighbors. Click here to continue>> Course Description Fees Course Contributions to Public Schedule Register Financial Aid Discourse Your chance to study principles of Baha'i consultation Washington Baha'i History Museum with skill-based exercises Provides Speakers for a Worldwide Video Webinar Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Dynamic Consultation: Nine Educational and Cultural Affairs The Washington Baha'i History Museum Keys to Unity in Seattle, Washington, USA, has, for a number of years been a trusted partner Part of a series of courses on skills development with Edmonds Community College, providing speakers for its Community Lead Faculty: Trip Barthel College Initiative program. When ECC and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs could Duration of course: Seven weeks (June 15 - August 3, 2015) not come up with speakers for a CCI Dynamic Consultation: Nine Keys global webinar in a timely manner, they to Unity brings together the principles turned to the History Museum, which of Baha'i consultation with the found six speakers in seventy-two hours. practices of mediation and facilitation. Click here to continue>> It is designed to promote unity and action in the community through News teaching the art and science of consultation in very practical skill- based exercises. Units contain discussions of engaging by meeting New Newsreel on the Construction and greeting; empathizing by feeling and connecting, and of the Baha'i Temple in Chile exploring by learning and knowing; envisioning by framing and Released focusing; expanding with creativity and diversity; elucidating View the moving virtues and principles; evaluating options and criteria, and eighth newsreel on executing via action and unity; and examining with reflection and the Baha'i Temple in growth. Such skills can be applied at Feasts, in Spiritual Assembly Chile, and see how and committee meetings, in reflection gatherings, as well as in it is already a family or work settings. The course is based on a textbook magnet for Baha'is available at and non-Baha'is; http://www.9facets.org/9f/Dynamic_Consultation.html; it will also builders, construction workers, and be available through the course website. architects; a dignitary from Samoa; and city officials (from Santiago and Course Description Fees Course Penalolen, both of whom speak in the Schedule Register Financial Aid video). For English: http://templo.bahai.cl/noticiario_eng.ht A new course on some of Baha'u'llah's earliest and m . For Spanish: most profound tablets http://templo.bahai.cl/noticiario.htm. Journal of Baha'i Studies' Editor Gems of Divine Mysteries and Discusses Theme Issues and Invites Feedback Other Early Tablets by Read a letter from the editor of the Journal of Baha'i Studies Baha'u'llah on theme issues, submitting articles, and proposing new One in a series of courses on the revelation of Baha'u'llah topics and authors, online book reviews, and more. Lead Faculty: Robert Stockman Click here to continue>> Faculty: Daniel Gebhardt, Daniel Pschaida Green Acre Baha'i School, Retreat, Duration of course: Seven weeks (July 1 - August 18, 2015) and Conference Center: Summer Paid and Volunteer Service In Gems of Divine Mysteries and Other Opportunities Early Tablets by Baha'u'llah we will Look into spending the summer at the examine the Javahiru'l-Asrar (Gems of Baha'i school in Maine (USA) visited by Divine Mysteries), a mystic work similar to 'Abdu'l-Baha, where there are paid both the Seven Valleys and the Kitab-i- summer positions open as well as Iqan. We will also study several shorter volunteer summer positions for youth but very important works by Baha'u'llah, (18-25) and adults (26+). Sahifiy-i-Shattiyyih (Book of the River), the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, Shikkar- Louhelen Baha'i School: Summer Shikan-Shavand, and Lawh-i-Ayyub Paid and Volunteer Service (Tablet of Job), all of which exist in official Opportunities translation or reliable provisional Are you or someone you know looking translation. We will read background for paid or volunteer summer work? about the circumstances of revelation of Louhelen Baha'i School in Davison, the tablets, read the tablets themselves, Michigan, USA, is looking for youth (18- and discuss their contents. 25) and adults (26+) paid and volunteer. Course Description Fees Course Save These Dates! Schedule Register Financial Aid An updated list of 2015 calls for papers, academic conferences, and webinars. Click here to continue>> Learners in Action Find answers about Baha'i dating, courtship, and preparation for marriage Climate Change Course 2015: Learners Find Unique Ways to Save Becoming a Couple: the Planet and Engage in Discourse about the Moral Ramifications of the Degradation of the Planet Preparing for Marriage Two learners in the 2015 Part of a series of courses on courtship and marriage Climate Change course found unusual ways to contribute to saving the planet and Lead Faculty: Susanne Alexander preparing for public discourse Faculty: Alex Blakeson, Hoda Kemp, Wendi Momen on the immorality of degrading our planet.
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