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  1. Posted 2026-07-23 in Bahá'í Writings:   Bahá'u'lláh, Aaron J. R. Ferguson, comp. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh: Unofficial Parallel-text Study Edition (2026). Side-by-side presentation of Persian and Arabic source passages with the English translation by Shoghi Effendi.
  2. Posted 2026-07-22 in Books:   William Sears. All Flags Flying (1985). Continuation of the story of Sear's life that he began in God Loves Laughter; written in a rapid-fire speaking style, this is not strictly a biography, but more a series of personal vignettes.
  3. Posted 2026-07-22 in Essays and short articles:   William Sears, Edward R. Murrow. Closer Than My Own Back Yard (1952). Short meditation on finding happiness within oneself, and maximizing the joy of life.
  4. Posted 2026-07-22 in Books:   William Sears. Cry from the Heart, A: The Bahá'ís in Iran (1982). A "personal cry of indignation at what is happening to the Bahá'ís of Iran" following the creation of the Islamic Republic; narratives recount the persecution and human suffering undergone by Iranian Bahá'ís. Includes list of martyrs.
  5. Posted 2026-07-22 in Books:   William Sears. God Loves Laughter (1960). The unpretentious and witty story of the author's youth and conversion to the Bahá'í Faith. Sears left broadcasting to travel the world expounding the Bahá'í Cause.
  6. Posted 2026-07-22 in Books:   William Sears. Half-Inch Prophecy, The (2000). Book-length essay on how one half-inch of scripture by Micah in the Bible proves that Baha'u'llah is the Messenger that all the prophets of past religions have been awaiting; parallels between the life and exiles of Bahá'u'lláh and biblical metaphors.
  7. Posted 2026-07-22 in Published articles:   William Sears. Martyr-Prophet of a World Faith, The (1950). Overview of the life and mission of the Báb, commemorating the centenary of the Martyrdom of the Bab (July 9, 1850).
  8. Posted 2026-07-22 in Books:   William Sears. Prince of Peace (1986). Through interpretation of biblical prophecies, Sears asserts that world peace has been within the grasp of the nations since the advent of Bahá'u'lláh.
  9. Posted 2026-07-22 in Books:   Michael Karlberg, Derik Smith. Rethinking Social Justice: Theory and Action in an Age of Transition (2026). On the evolution of social justice discourse and collective efforts to build new social forms and institutions capable of supplanting anachronistic and unjust ones; what ends should we aspire toward, and what means are most effective in pursuing them?
  10. Posted 2026-07-21 in Essays and short articles:   Clyde Arthur Keys. Emerald Tablet: The Earliest Documentation (2026). The oldest scripted version of The Emerald Tablet is dated 800 CE, written by Greek Apollonios (Arabic Balinus). Humanity has transcribable talisman petroglyphs of the same relationships 2500 years ancient.
  11. Posted 2026-07-16 in Personal compilations:   Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Audrie Reynolds, comp. Mighty River, A: Selections from the Bahá'í Writings (1977). A compilation from the Writings from a Native American perspective, emphasizing the natural organic character of the Faith within the world of creation.
  12. Posted 2026-07-15 in Published articles:   Moojan Momen. The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle Babism, by Denis MacEoin: Review (2009).
  13. Posted 2026-07-14 in Links:   Steven Phelps, comp., Violetta Zein, comp., Adib Masumian, comp., Chad Jones, comp. LLM and NotebookLM Resources for Bahá'í Studies (2026). Links to Google Notebook AI collections of the Writings and Bahá'í historical journals.
  14. Posted 2026-07-14 in Published articles:   Peter Smith. Motif Research: Peter Berger and the Bahá'í Faith (1978). Sociologist Berger identified two underlying messianic and gnostic themes as running through Bahá'í history; his approach is useful in studying other religious movements.
  15. Posted 2026-07-08 in Published articles:   Mina Yazdani. Three Iranian Intellectual Icons of the 1960s and Their Attitudes Toward the Bahá'ís (2026). Three influential 1960s Iranian intellectuals perpetuated unfounded conspiracy theories linking Bahá'ís to foreign powers, inadvertently normalizing discrimination against their compatriots despite their progressive self-image.
  16. Posted 2026-07-08 in Published articles:   Amrollah Hemmat, David A. Palmer. Three Purities and Three-Stage Ontologies, The: From Daoism to the Baháʼí Faith (2026). Using Daoism’s (Taoism) Three Purities, this study compares Daoist, Platonic, Sufi, and Bahá’í three-stage ontologies, highlighting creation, return, spiritual development, and ethical implications.
  17. Posted 2026-07-05 in Books:   Arash Fazli, ed., Amitabh Kundu, ed. Dialogues on Development: Rethinking Development for a Just and Sustainable Future (2026). Explores development through justice, sustainability, and ethical values, integrating diverse perspectives on inequality, governance, livelihoods, ecology, technology, and knowledge. [Link to offsite document.]
  18. Posted 2026-07-05 in Essays and short articles:   Clyde Arthur Keys. We All know What a Bahá'í is; What Is an 'Abdu'l-Bahá'í? (2026). Thoughts on the magnitude of `Abdu'l-Bahá's influence on Khalil Gibran and his writings. Two major characters in Gibran's works were possibly cloaked representatives of `Abdu'l-Bahá himself.
  19. Posted 2026-07-04 in Provisional translations:   The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. Treatise on Spiritual Wayfaring unto God (Risálah fi's-Sulúk ilá Alláh) (2026). An early treatise that reinterprets religious law as inward ascent; ritual acts signify stages of the soul's journey; a fourfold structure of divine manifestation within the human reality; outward practice becomes symbolic of ontological transformation.
  20. Posted 2026-07-03 in Published articles:   Mehrdad Bashiri. تاریخچه تأسیس انجمن ارتباط شرق وغرب (The Persian-American Educational Society: A Historical Overview) (2025). On the founding and work of this philanthropic effort, established in the United States in 1910, to send earthquake relief to Iran under the support of Abdu'l-Bahá, who advocated for strengthening Iran through trade and sciences rather than conflict.
  21. Posted 2026-06-23 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice:   Universal House of Justice. Tablet "Lawh-i-Jadhb" Not Authenticated (2022). This "Tablet" of Bahá'u'lláh well-known as Lawh-i-Jazb is not authenticated.
  22. Posted 2026-06-22 in Published articles:   Mehrdad Bashiri. یک تراژدی تلخ در گستره تاریخ ایران: انقلاب بابی کشی در یزد (تابستان ۱۹۰۳ میلادی) (A Tragic Pogrom in Iranian History: The Anti Bahá'í Massacre of 1903 in Yazd) (2024). On a significant episode of persecution and a precursor to the tensions that contributed to the Constitutional Revolution; anti-Bahá’í violence encouraged by clerics and local politicians eventually ended under pressure from the central government.
  23. Posted 2026-06-18 in Essays and short articles:   Grover Gonzales. Ruhíyyih Khánum's Two Cables Announcing the Death of Shoghi Effendi (2026). Some context for two cables sent Nov. 4 1957, the appointment of the International Bahá'í Council, and actions of some of the Hands. Includes appendix "Proclamation of Shoghi Effendi" (1951 February 9).
  24. Posted 2026-06-16 in Presentations:   Christopher Buck. What Teachings of the Bahá'í Faith are New and Distinct? (2026).
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