I just wanted to express my gratitude for the incredible content you've been sharing. As someone who's on a journey to combine my spiritual and religious selves, it can be challenging at times, but it's also incredibly rewarding and fun! Your insights and perspectives have been so helpful in expanding my understanding and connecting me with others who share my passion. Thank you for being a part of my spiritual journey! Keep up the good work.
Great read and great quotes from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. In my studies and writings as a scholar of religion, I find Baháʼí to be one of the most fascinating religious traditions because it is built on an understanding of the many legitimate difficulties people in the modern world have with connecting to religion and spirituality: they are wounded by institutional abuses, they have major concerns about the perceived mutual exclusivity of science and religion, and they are just plain tired of interreligious conflict. Baháʼí has an answer for all of that. It recognizes the historical problems with religion and looks toward building a brighter future with healthier forms of religion and spirituality.
Oh yes! I always start my classes by telling my students that we need to study religion because it's where the very best and the very worst of human beings can be found. That's why we need to pay attention to it! And of course what we actually mean when we say "religion" is a whole other question...
It seems to me that healing religious institutions happen when they're grounded in compassion and care, first and foremost. When rules and ritual and hierarchy are in service to that compassion and care, first and foremost. That means that the institutional elements of a tradition necessity have to be adaptable to what individuals and community need when it comes to that care. And beyond this, healing communities are constantly working to expand the circle of that care--beyond us, to them, and beyond humans to more-than-humans.
I just wanted to express my gratitude for the incredible content you've been sharing. As someone who's on a journey to combine my spiritual and religious selves, it can be challenging at times, but it's also incredibly rewarding and fun! Your insights and perspectives have been so helpful in expanding my understanding and connecting me with others who share my passion. Thank you for being a part of my spiritual journey! Keep up the good work.
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Great read and great quotes from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. In my studies and writings as a scholar of religion, I find Baháʼí to be one of the most fascinating religious traditions because it is built on an understanding of the many legitimate difficulties people in the modern world have with connecting to religion and spirituality: they are wounded by institutional abuses, they have major concerns about the perceived mutual exclusivity of science and religion, and they are just plain tired of interreligious conflict. Baháʼí has an answer for all of that. It recognizes the historical problems with religion and looks toward building a brighter future with healthier forms of religion and spirituality.
Oh yes! I always start my classes by telling my students that we need to study religion because it's where the very best and the very worst of human beings can be found. That's why we need to pay attention to it! And of course what we actually mean when we say "religion" is a whole other question...
It seems to me that healing religious institutions happen when they're grounded in compassion and care, first and foremost. When rules and ritual and hierarchy are in service to that compassion and care, first and foremost. That means that the institutional elements of a tradition necessity have to be adaptable to what individuals and community need when it comes to that care. And beyond this, healing communities are constantly working to expand the circle of that care--beyond us, to them, and beyond humans to more-than-humans.
This is belated but we so appreciate this insightful and thoughtful comment. We totally agree!