Springfield Illinois Baha'i Faith

The Springfield Baha'i Center will host a panel discussion, "Racial Unity: Finding Common Ground in Springfield," at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6.

Dean Olsen, senior staff writer for Illinois Times, will discuss his recent cover story on racial disparities in the area along with panelists who will suggest actionable items:

https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/economic-gaps-persist-for-blacks-20142512/

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"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." - Bahá'u'lláh

Unity in diversity—celebrating our oneness while honoring our beautiful differences. When we recognize the earth as one country, we don't erase what makes each culture, tradition, and individual unique. Instead, we see how our diversity strengthens the whole, like flowers in a garden that create beauty through their varied colors and forms. This vision calls us to build bridges that connect rather than walls that divide.

How can you celebrate both unity and diversity in your community today?

https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/stumbling-toward-unity-20347585

Stumbling toward unity More than 150 years ago, Baha’u’llah proclaimed the oneness of humanity. Addressing mankind, he said, “The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not...

A great resource about the prophecies of the world’s major religions waiting for their great redeemer/savior, leading to religious unity and world peace in the future under the Baha’i Faith - www.prophecy-fulfilled.com.

Organized and some segments written by Joel Smith. If you click on a phrase underlined in blue, it will bring up more information on that topic.

Click on one of the following to Religious UnityJewish PropheciesChristian PropheciesIslamic PropheciesBuddhist PropheciesHindu PropheciesZoroastrian PropheciesNative American PropheciesBaha'i PropheciesBaha'i Topics

A great resource for religious/spiritual topics from the Baha’i point of view is a handbook prepared by Dr. David F. Young, currently on the Baha’i National Spiritual Assembly of the United States - Teaching Christians Effectively.
Specifically, answering the most common questions Christians ask regarding Baha’i beliefs. Its goal is to confirm to Christians that the Baha’i interpretation of the Bible is both Biblical and accurate. Google search “www.Bahai-library.com teaching Christians effectively”, and then download the pdf. The table of contents is very useful and so is the index at the end.

Bahá'í Library Online Baha'i articles, books, translations, and historical materials

“VERILY I say, this is the Day in which mankind can behold the Face, and hear the Voice, of the Promised One.

The Call of God hath been raised, and the light of His countenance hath been lifted up upon men. It behooveth every man to blot out the trace of every idle word from the tablet of his heart, and to gaze, with an open and unbiased mind, on the signs of His Revelation, the proofs of His Mission, and the tokens of His glory.

Great indeed is this Day! The allusions made to it in all the sacred Scriptures as the Day of God attest its greatness. The soul of every Prophet of God, of every Divine Messenger, hath thirsted for this wondrous Day. All the divers kindreds of the earth have, likewise, yearned to attain it. No sooner, however, had the Daystar of His Revelation manifested itself in the heaven of God’s Will, than all, except those whom the Almighty was pleased to guide, were found dumbfounded and heedless.

O thou that hast remembered Me! The most grievous veil hath shut out the peoples of the earth from His glory, and hindered them from hearkening to His call. God grant that the light of unity may envelop the whole earth, and that the seal, “the Kingdom is God’s,” may be stamped upon the brow of all its peoples.

-Baha’u’llah

https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/gleanings-writings-bahaullah/2 #459617483