Martin Luther King day is a good time to link to a 2-part article on The Bahá’í World site with a historical perspective on racism in the United States:
The Bahá’í response to racial injustice and pursuit of racial unity
This site is the online continuation of a series of “yearbook-like” compilations of Bahá’í history, published from 1926 on. I like the longer-form perspective articles it has. Two others I liked are:
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A new cycle of human power: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s encounters with modernist writers and artists
Reading reality in times of crisis: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the Great War
On a tangent, I’m making a list of recent new Bahá’í terminology with a goal of taking notes on their meanings. Often new developments need naming to be understood, and I hope this is what’s happening:
- building capacity
- elevated conversations
- involvement in the discourses of society
- reading the reality of […]