“Healing the World” is an ever more urgent theme for the Bahai-hosted World Religion Day in Hong Kong
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Love and Unity Must Rise to Meet Sorrow and Anxiety
I’ve written briefly about my afternoon at World Religion Day in Hong Kong, which was organized by the local Baha’i community. It took place only a couple of weeks before the coronavirus crisis took hold in Wuhan and spread across China and the world. The virus has plunged the global community into a crisis – […]
Celebration and Mourning: Two Sides of Togetherness
Last Sunday I attended World Religion Day 2020, which was co-organized by the Baha’i Community of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Network on Religious Peace. While our cosmopolitan city has (in my opinion) a ways to go in catching up with New York or London in terms of culture, there is one field in […]
St. James Parish, Barbados
We are not divided byour politics. That’s a lie.We are divided by chainsof mountains formed bythe folding of the earth’s crust.A full Gospel assembly of geological ruckus.Under extreme pressure, when the butter melts and foams on the rubber spatula of a mountain boulder, racedoes not keep us from understanding,at least not the way erosion does.The […]
To Find That Place
Steve Braff To find that place beyond judgment beyond fear a place of presence the simple clarity of knowing this most gentle unveiling of the sacred in this moment of the whole in which I am forever no longer apart.