How Can You Use Web Talks to Present Baha’u’llah’s Unifying Teachings?

Most of us know that the Universal House of Justice and our National Spiritual Assemblies are increasingly urging us to “present the unifying teachings of Bahá’u’llah” to our fellow-citizens in the run-up to the celebrations of the Twin Birthdays in October 2017. How, exactly, you may be wondering, can you use Wilmette Institute Web Talks to do just that? We have two suggestions. One, listen to the talks yourself to educate yourself about issues in which your friends and seekers are interested. Two, invite the same individuals to listen to the talks with you, and let the conversation flow.

Society and Social Change

• Augusto Lopez-Claros—“The Emergence of Global Institutions” (July 2017)
• Michael Penn—“Mind & Development: Some Bahá’í-Inspired Reflections on Mind and the Harvest of Human Thought” (June 2017)
• “Is There a Baha’i Economic System?” by Hooshmand Badee (March 2017)
• “Globalization and Current Events—A Bahá’í Perspective” by Greg Dahl (February 2017)
• “No Jim Crow Church: The History of the South Carolina Bahá’í Community” by Lois Venters (December 2016)
• “Imagining Bahá’í law” by Roshan Danesh (October 2016)
• “Creativity in Consultation” by Trip Barthel (June 2016)
• “Consultation: A Revolutionary Model of Democratic Governance” by Brian Aull (February 2016)
• “Five Revolutionary Teachings about Gender Equality in the Baha’i Faith” by Vasu Mohan (March 2016)
• “Science and Religion: Reconciliation, Cooperation, and Harmonious Development” by Steve Friberg (November 2015)
• “Building a World Federation: The Key to Solving Our Global Crises” by Sovaida Maani Ewing (October 2015)
• “Navigating the Storm: The Transition to Sustainability” by Arthur Lyon Dahl (September 2015)
• “Healthy, Unified Marriages as a Service to Humanity” by Susanne Alexander (August 2015)

World Religions: An Integrated Approach

• “The Qur’anic Epic and the Creation of Humanity” by Todd Lawson (April 23, 2017)
• “The Qur’an in the Writings of Baha’u’llah and the Bab” by Todd Lawson (April 16, 2017)
• “The Qur’an and Islam: Explorations from a Baha’i Perspective” Todd Lawson (April 9, 2017)
• “God and Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America” by Christopher Buck (May 2015)

History and Biography

• “Zikrullah Khadem, the Itinerant Hand of the Cause of God” by Jena Khadem Khodadad (May 2017)
• “Trudy and the Bahá’ís’ Spiritual Path in South Carolina” by Annette Reynolds (January 2017)
• “No Jim Crow Church: The History of the South Carolina Bahá’í Community” by Lois Venters (December 2016)
• “The Dawning of the Bahá’í Faith on the European Continent” by Julio Savi (August 2016)
• “The Leaves of the Twin Divine Trees” by Baharieh Routhani Maani (September 2015)
• “The Re-Creation and Utilization of a Community’s Memories: Shogh Effendi and Bahá’í History” [a look at why the Guardian translated The Dawn-Breakers] by Moojan Momen (May 2015)

Exploring Bahá’u’lláh’s Transforming Revelation

• “A Divine Proclamation Like No Other! Baha’u’llah’s Suratu’l-Muluk (The Epistle of Kings)—Part 1: Historical Contextualization & Essential Features of the Tablet” [Bahá’ulláh’s first epistle to the kings and rulers of His time] by Shahrokh Monjazeb (November 2016)
• “Bahá’u’lláh, The Return of Joseph” by Todd Lawson (September 2016)
• “I Am the Mystic Fane: The Nature of the Manifestation in the Bahá’í Writings” by Stephen Phelps (May 2016)
• “Veiled and Concealed in the Hidden Habitation of His Inner Being: Revelation in the Siyah Chal” [Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation in the Siyah Chal] by Shahrokh Monjazeb (January 2016)
• “The Face of God among Us” by John Hatcher (2015)

Bahá’í Perspectives on the Arts and Literature

• “Windows on Divine Wisdom: Accessing the Meaning of the Baha’i Revelation” [one method of studying the Bahá’í writings] by Sandra Lynn Hutchison (June 2015)
• “Where Spirit Intersects Art” by Anne Perry (March 2015)

Bahá’í Thought

• “The Bahá’í Proofs for God” by Ian Kluge (February 2015)