WINDOW VIEWS

Indian sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar wrote the music of "O Aalok Putra Agyani" for the 1986 opening of the Baháʼí ...

The New Year of Baháʼís and Persians is upon us. Millions worldwide celebrated Naw-Rúz on 20 March, the day of the vernal equinox in t...

He came from a Romano-British imperial family, but he was abducted and enslaved as a herdsman in the Irish hills. He escaped Ireland b...

The nineteen-day Baháʼí fast is currently being observed. It involves complete abstention from food and drinks from sunrise till suns...

The Bahá’í World is celebrating the Festival of Ayyám-i-Há, a period dedicated to compassion, hospitality, generosity, friendship, and p...

IN THIS season of love and affection, nothing defines love more affectingly than a unified family. Here are my siblings and their famili...

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS ignited the internet for an inauguration image that showed him seated in thick mittens, a parka, and a totally c...

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S inauguration this week was like no other in American history. It went through heightened security measures a...

HERE ARE excerpts from President Joe Biden's inaugural address, which I received on email this morning from the Biden Inaugural Commit...

AMERICA HAS a new president, and a new day has begun. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. takes office as the 46th president of the United Stat...

PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi has launched one of the world's biggest inoculation drives—targeting India's 10.5 million infection...

THE BAHÁ'Í World News Service has released a video compendium of the most compelling stories of the global Bahá’í community in 2020...

SOURCE: The New York Times THE VIOLENCE at the US Capitol wasn't just a defacement of America's image as the exemplar of democrac...

MAY CALM fill your daily life,    that you may hear the chords of violins      and not the discords of violence.    May you hear ag...

LIKE ANY other social activity this year, Christmas meant new ways of connecting and celebrating. Our Zoom gathering last night was grip...

LUWIG VAN Beethoven was born on or around this day 250 years ago in Bonn. As we end the year, we remember the Ode to Joy —a paean to the ...

THIS MONTH , Bahá'ís around the world commemorate two Holy Days associated with ‘Abdu'l-Bahá: The Day of the Covenant (26 Nov...

MY YOUTUBE channel, Paul Ancheta , has just hit the 1,000-subscriber mark! I can't thank each one of them enough.

THE PROFESSOR starts off well: a dying upper-middle-class English professor decides to be nonconforming in the few months he realizes he h...

THIS VIDEO , backed up by JJ Heller's "A Mother Like You", honors two of the finest mothers in the world: my sister Carla and...

EARLIER TONIGHT , my siblings and I got together and offered a prayer for America. It is one of two that ʻAbdu'l-Bahá revealed a hundr...

"KAMALA" IS Sanskrit for "lotus". May the new POTUS and "LOTUS" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue help bring in t...

AS CATHOLICS commemorate saints and souls in this solemn weekend , I remember departed members of my family and honor their selflessness a...

FACT AND fiction collide in Seth Grahame-Smith's otherworldy novel, causing hilarious sparks of adventure and horrifying flashes o...

JUST WHEN the pandemic is changing everything we do, here's Moschino presenting a new opportunity: a more sophisticated use of couture...

THIS IS the majestic "Dastam Begir, 'Abdu'l-Bahá (Hold My Hand, 'Adbu'l-Bahá)" performed by Narges Nouhnejad...

MUSIC HAS always helped in blocking out work distractions. Working from home has one big perk: playing music the way you want it, without...

I GREW up in the Philippines saying "Hey Joe" to any American I'd see, and lived in India saying "Hi Kamala" to acq...

DO YOU remember when you joined Twitter? I do—it's been 13 years, since 6 August 2007. I signed up after hearing an American speaker...

2020 marks 60 years since Barbra Streisand sang live for the first time. Since then, her stage performances in clubs, concerts, telev...