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H&F Weekly Devotionals

Wednesday 8pm (UK time)

Thursdays 7pm (UK time)

Sunday 11am (UK time)

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Join our Hammersmith and Fulham virtual devotional programs:

Every Wednesday night 8pm (UK time). Reflections cover themes like Joy, Patience, Overcoming Racism and many more.

Also on alternate Sundays 11am (UK time)

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Past sessions

Celebrating Small
Reflections from the Grassroots

Sun 11th Apr, 4pm (UK time)

Sean Hinton

It has been a year since we started hosting our Zoom talks, and we hope you have gained greater insight into the topics covered, and enjoyed the virtual friendships fostered during these sessions. As lockdown slowly eases in many parts of the world, this will be our last talk. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our amazing speakers and our wonderful audience.

For this final talk, we are pleased to re-invite Sean Hinton who was also our first speaker. He will focus on a key element of any Baha'i community - the grassroots - and explore how small and local actions hold the power and potential to transform communities. Sean will also be sharing his stories and reflections on his years as a pioneer.

As a youth, Sean moved to Mongolia and was later named a Knight of Baháʼu'lláh. Sean is now the Co-Director of Economic Justice Program at Open Society Foundations and also the CEO of Soros Economic Development Fund.

Shared Global Risk & the Prospects for Greater International Unity

Sun 28th Mar, 4pm (UK time)

Maja Groff

The international community recently observed the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, against the backdrop of a once-in-a-century global pandemic and related economic crisis, as well as growing evidence of intensifying climate change and potentially catastrophic biodiversity loss, accelerating technology-related risks, among other inter-linked challenges. Is our existing global governance system sufficient to tackle the current international problem set? Are there prospects for greater international unity in the coming years? Taking the recent publication Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century as a starting point, this talk will look at a series of international risks / challenges confronted by the international community, possible enhancements to our collective problem-solving mechanisms, and the global policy shifts which might be necessary to grapple with our shared problems.

Maja Groff is an international lawyer based in The Hague, assisting in the development and servicing of multilateral treaties, also working at various international criminal tribunals (ICTY, STL), teaching at the Hague Academy of International Law and is currently a visiting scholar at Leiden University. She has worked on a wide range of existing and potential global treaties addressing contemporary human rights issues and cross-border legal cooperation, including the pioneering International Hague Network of Judges. She regularly conducts liaison work with international organisations, international professional associations, NGOs and has played a key role in the convening of international legal expert groups for the purpose of developing new international legal norms. She has drafted a wide range of international legal policy documents and published academically on private and public international law, human rights and global governance. She holds degrees from McGill (civil law and common law), Oxford and Harvard Universities, and is an attorney admitted to practice in the state of New York, formerly working in corporate law. She has served on the International Law and UN Committees of the New York City Bar Association, and the (Advisory) Boards of BCorp Europe and ebbf, organisations devoted to ethical business. She was a co-winner of the 2018 New Shape Prize for global governance innovation, and is a co-author of the 2020 book, Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century, published by Cambridge University Press.

Global Governance and Sustainability

Sun 7th Mar, 4pm (UK time)

Arthur Dahl

Links to presentation materials

Our materialistic consumer society driving endless economic growth has now overshot planetary boundaries and is threatening our life-support systems. Multinational corporations driven solely by the profit motive are free to rape the planet, build monopoly positions and escape from taxation beyond any national control. No country can alone either solve these problems or protect itself from the damaging consequences, showing the limits to national sovereignty. Only new institutions of global environmental governance can help us to address climate change, biodiversity loss, planetary pollution and other threats and lead the restoration of the natural resources necessary for a future sustainable and ever-advancing civilisation.

Arthur Dahl is an environmental scientist specializing in coral reef ecology and a retired senior official of the United Nations Environment Programme with nearly a half century of experience in intergovernmental organizations. He is president of the International Environment Forum (https://iefworld.org), a Bahá’í-inspired professional organization for the environment and sustainability, and has devoted his life to harmonising science and religion in addressing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

His two most recent books are In Pursuit of Hope: A Guide for the Seeker (George Ronald, 2019) and Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with Augusto Lopez-Claros and Maja Groff).

The Compelling God and the Attracting God

Sun 21st Feb, 4pm (UK time)

Dr Moojan Momen

Please kindly note that materials are for personal use only: Link to presentation materials

Join us as Dr Moojan Momen examine two differing concepts of God: the first sees God as the cause of everything that happens, starting with the Creation itself and God is the ultimate cause of all events since. The second view focuses on God as the goal towards which all human beings are moving; God attracts and invites human beings to follow a path towards Him. Neither of these viewpoints is wrong; it is more a question of emphasis. The first view of God is the one that has prevailed in Western societies. Its social consequences are those of the hierarchical, competitive societies that we have. However, in the presentation, we will examine evidence that in the Baha'i teachings, it is the second view that has precedence over the first and the social consequences of that are entirely different.

Dr. Moojan Momen attended the University of Cambridge, where he studied medicine and subsequently also Arabic and Islamic Civilization. He has a special interest in the study of the Baha'i Faith and Shi`i Islam, both from the viewpoint of their history and their doctrines. In recent years, his interests have extended to the study of the phenomenon of religion. His principal publications in these fields include: Introduction to Shi`i Islam (Yale University Press, 1985); The Babi and Baha'i Faiths 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts (George Ronald, Oxford, 1982); and The Phenomenon of Religion (OneWorld, Oxford, 1999, republished as Understanding Religion, 2008). He has contributed articles to encyclopaedias such as Encyclopedia Iranica and Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World as well as papers to academic journals such as International Journal of Middle East Studies, Past and Present, Iran, Iranian Studies, Journal of Genocide Research and Religion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Environment and Spirituality

Sun 7th Feb, 4pm (UK time)

Arthur Dahl

Please kindly note that materials are for personal use only: Link to presentation materials

Environmental crises like climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and the destruction of the natural resources upon which we all depend have become an existential challenge despite decades of warnings from the scientific community. The motivation and political will to act are inadequate to save ourselves, so what more is needed? Only religion and spirituality have been shown historically to touch the hearts as well as the minds and to drive large-scale transformations in human society. The Bahá’í Faith provides a modern approach to bringing us back into balance with our planetary environment.

Arthur Dahl is an environmental scientist specializing in coral reef ecology and a retired senior official of the United Nations Environment Programme with nearly a half century of experience in intergovernmental organizations. He is president of the International Environment Forum (https://iefworld.org), a Bahá’í-inspired professional organization for the environment and sustainability, and has devoted his life to harmonising science and religion in addressing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

His two most recent books are In Pursuit of Hope: A Guide for the Seeker (George Ronald, 2019) and Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with Augusto Lopez-Claros and Maja Groff).


Bahá'í Principles as
Consumers and Entrepreneurs

Sun 24th Jan, 4pm (UK time)

Daniel Truran

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In the 25th of November letter of the Universal House of Justice we read "your efforts to succour and support one another as well as your sisters and brothers in society at large will certainly need to be sustained.” So how can we bring Baha'i principles to society at large and how can we apply them in the places where we spend most of our time: our workplaces? How can our companies become sources of hope and positive impact? And how can we use our influence as mindful consumers to reward good enterprises?

Daniel Truran is serving as director of the ebbf - ethical business building the future. ebbf is a baha’i-inspired global learning community that accompanies mindful individuals and groups, through daily work and discourse to transform business and the economy, thereby contributing to a prosperous, just and sustainable civilization. Some examples of ebbf members living their Baha’i Values at work can be found here.

Since he Declared as a Baha’i in Milan in 2001 Daniel has dedicated the last 20 years to explore and harness the connection between Baha'i values, the purpose and the actions of people and companies, inspiring and creating communities and movements that are building the future, a better, more prosperous, sustainable and just future. Besides his role at ebbf.org he is also currently B Corp ambassador at B Lab Europe and teaches at various masters and business schools.


Poverty, Inequality, Racism: Challenges for this Century

Sun 10th Jan, 4pm (UK time)

Augusto Lopez-Claros

Although we have made some progress in reducing extreme poverty over the past 30 years, it remains a serious unresolved global problem. Income inequality, likewise, has emerged as a huge economic, social and political problem, with the potential to undermine the stability of our global order. And racial prejudice, while able to separate people and induce conflict, would appear to have no scientific basis whatsoever. During His entire ministry Abdu’l-Baha referred frequently to the problem of poverty, inequality and racism and on several occasions called for the emergence of a new social and economic order that would address deep-seated injustices. He also put forward several specific proposals that would help mitigate what He regarded as a serious social and economic crisis. We will review some of the problems created by these three challenges of our time, both for policymakers and, more generally, for social cohesion and sustainable economic development. The presentation will also explore several ways in which these problems could be mitigated over the medium term, all of them within the grasp of governments everywhere, particularly in the developing world, where they have especially undesirable consequences. None of these possible remedies are getting the attention they deserve, all of them would make a great difference.

In this connection, we are delighted to have Augusto Lopez-Claros speak with us on the above themes. Mr. Lopez-Claros is an international economist with over 30 years of experience in international organisations, including most recently at the World Bank as director of the Global Indicators Group. He was also the chief economist and director of the Global Competitiveness program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, and is also a former Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in Russia. He is currently the executive director of the Global Governance Forum (www.globalgovernanceforum.org)

His two most recent books are Equality for Women = Prosperity for All (St. Martin’s Press, 2018, with Bahiyyih Nakhjavani) and Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with A. Dahl and M.Groff).

The Pen of Baháʼu'lláh - Part III

Sun 13th Dec, 4pm (UK time)

Professor Giuseppe Robiati

We are delighted to have Giuseppe Robiati present to us again. This time, he will examine the revelation of Baháʼu'lláh, share insight into His tablets and writings and take us through the history of Baháʼu'lláh's revelation.

Giuseppe (Beppe) Robiati has spent his life combining his business activities with a parallel educational and spiritual role which aims to bring the concepts of a new world order into business. Publications and lectures delivered in a number of countries around the world has allowed him to share his growing experience and expertise to an ever-wider circle of business people, civil society, professors, academics, students and Baha'i meetings. Applying his principles of ethics, the management of human resources as the mine of gems that they are, a business model that looks at the benefit of the stakeholders and the spiritual principles of Baha'u'llah, has allowed his entrepreneurial career to prosper whilst setting a practical example of actions matching words. Working with a team of collaborators, he has built extensive curricula spanning a wide range of business issues, his pillar remaining the entire concept and definition of ethical behaviour - both as a vision in a new world order and as a practical instrument in the business and socio-political field. Originally from a Catholic background, he became a Baha'i at the age of 16. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy for 45 years and is also a cofounder of Ethical Business Building the Future (EBBF).

100 years after the League of Nations and the Tablet of the Hague

Sun 22th Nov, 4pm (UK time)

Augusto Lopez-Claros

Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century

Global Governance Website

2020 is the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Charter by 51 nations in San Francisco. The Charter was intended to inaugurate a new era in international relations, with the United Nations at the center of a new global architecture for peace, security and human prosperity. But 2020 is also the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the League of Nations, the first attempt at establishing a framework for collective security. And it is the 100th anniversary of the Tablet to the Hague, perhaps the most comprehensive statement made by the head of the Baha'i community at the time on the subject of the establishment of world peace. This presentation will reflect on the significance of this year and what it means at this particular moment in history. In this connection, we are delighted to have Augusto Lopez-Claros speak with us on the above themes.

Mr. Lopez-Claros is an international economist with over 30 years of experience in international organisations, including most recently at the World Bank as director of the Global Indicators Group. He was also the chief economist and director of the Global Competitiveness program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, and is also a former Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in Russia. He is the executive director of the Global Governance Forum (www.globalgovernanceforum.org)

His two most recent books are Equality for Women = Prosperity for All (St. Martin’s Press, 2018, with Bahiyyih Nakhjavani) and Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with A. Dahl and M.Groff).

The Pen of Baháʼu'lláh - Part II

Sun 8th Nov, 4pm (UK time)

Professor Giuseppe Robiati

Please kindly note that materials are for personal use only: Link to presentation material

http://www.bepperobiati.it/index.htm

We are delighted to have Giuseppe Robiati present to us again. This time, he will examine the revelation of Baháʼu'lláh, share insight into His tablets and writings and take us through the history of Baháʼu'lláh's revelation.

Giuseppe (Beppe) Robiati has spent his life combining his business activities with a parallel educational and spiritual role which aims to bring the concepts of a new world order into business. Publications and lectures delivered in a number of countries around the world has allowed him to share his growing experience and expertise to an ever-wider circle of business people, civil society, professors, academics, students and Baha'i meetings. Applying his principles of ethics, the management of human resources as the mine of gems that they are, a business model that looks at the benefit of the stakeholders and the spiritual principles of Baha'u'llah, has allowed his entrepreneurial career to prosper whilst setting a practical example of actions matching words. Working with a team of collaborators, he has built extensive curricula spanning a wide range of business issues, his pillar remaining the entire concept and definition of ethical behaviour - both as a vision in a new world order and as a practical instrument in the business and socio-political field. Originally from a Catholic background, he became a Baha'i at the age of 16. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy for 45 years and is also a cofounder of Ethical Business Building the Future (EBBF).

The Pen of Baháʼu'lláh - Part I

Sun 25th Oct, 4pm (UK time)

Professor Giuseppe Robiati

Please kindly note that materials are for personal use only: Link to presentation materials

We are delighted to have Giuseppe Robiati present to us again. This time, he will examine the revelation of Baháʼu'lláh, share insight into His tablets and writings and take us through the history of Baháʼu'lláh's revelation.

Giuseppe (Beppe) Robiati has spent his life combining his business activities with a parallel educational and spiritual role which aims to bring the concepts of a new world order into business. Publications and lectures delivered in a number of countries around the world has allowed him to share his growing experience and expertise to an ever-wider circle of business people, civil society, professors, academics, students and Baha'i meetings. Applying his principles of ethics, the management of human resources as the mine of gems that they are, a business model that looks at the benefit of the stakeholders and the spiritual principles of Baha'u'llah, has allowed his entrepreneurial career to prosper whilst setting a practical example of actions matching words. Working with a team of collaborators, he has built extensive curricula spanning a wide range of business issues, his pillar remaining the entire concept and definition of ethical behaviour - both as a vision in a new world order and as a practical instrument in the business and socio-political field. Originally from a Catholic background, he became a Baha'i at the age of 16. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy for 45 years and is also a cofounder of Ethical Business Building the Future (EBBF).

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Tribute to the Báb

Sat 17th Oct, 8pm (UK time)

Hammersmith & Fulham Community

More than two hundred years ago, a special child was born. This child then became known as the Báb, precursor and Herald of Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Baha’i Faith.

On the 18th of October Bahá’ís all over the world celebrate His birthday. Please join us to mark this special occasion. The program will feature Persian and Arabic chants by two Bahá’í artists and a narrated story of the life of the Báb accompanied by slides.

Embracing the heart: concert@home

Sat 26th Sep, 4pm (UK time)

Leonor Dely

The New York Times hailed her 2001 CD Ámame - Palabras Ocultas de Bahá'u'lláh as "A musical masterpiece throughout! A must for any world music enthusiast!"

Multi-Grammy-Award winner and producer, KC Porter, said of her: "Her music has some of the most powerful rhythmic diversity I've ever heard, and on top of that, the words she has put to music are breathtakingly inspiring. She's a mix between Cesarea Evora and The Buena Vista Social Club with incredible spiritual depth."

Leonor Dely is one of Colombia's finest singer/songwriter and we are delighted to have her perform some of her most memorable pieces and share with us the story and inspiration behind them. Please note, as this will be a home concert via Zoom, there will be no bells, no whistles - just Leonor, her story and her amazing voice.

Some of her music can be found >> here <<

>> Program <<

A Beacon of Hope - Tahirih Justice Center

Sun 13th Sep, 4pm (UK time)

Layli Miller-Muro

The Tahirih Justice Center is a non-profit organisation that has served over 25,000 individuals fleeing violence since 1997. They have provided free legal defense to countless immigrant women and girls in the United States and gave them an opportunity for a better life. We are honoured to have Layli Miller-Muro founder and Executive Director of Tahirih Justice Center speak to us about the work of the Center and her experiences as well as how the teachings of the Baha'i Faith have helped shape its vision.

Rethinking society and the economy after Covid-19

Sun 30th Aug 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Professor Giuseppe Robiati

We cannot forget the time we are living in - a special time where no one could have imagined the changes which the coronavirus has brought to daily life and business activities, or knows how long we will have to live with Covid-19. However, this event gives us a tremendous opportunity to redefine our individual and collective lives.

Giuseppe (Beppe) Robiati has spent his life combining his business activities with a parallel educational and spiritual role which aims to bring the concepts of a new world order into business. Publications and lectures delivered in a number of countries around the world has allowed him to share his growing experience and expertise to an ever-wider circle of business people, civil society, professors, academics, students and Baha'i meetings. Applying his principles of ethics, the management of human resources as the mine of gems that they are, a business model that looks at the benefit of the stakeholders and the spiritual principles of Baha'u'llah, has allowed his entrepreneurial career to prosper whilst setting a practical example of actions matching words. Working with a team of collaborators, he has built extensive curricula spanning a wide range of business issues, his pillar remaining the entire concept and definition of ethical behaviour - both as a vision in a new world order and as a practical instrument in the business and socio-political field. Originally from a Catholic background, he became a Baha'i at the age of 16. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy for 45 years and is also a cofounder of Ethical Business Building the Future (EBBF).

The Bahá'í International Community

Sun 16th Aug 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Bani Dugal

We are delighted to have Bani Dugal, Principal Representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations, share with us her experiences and insights into the work of the Baha'i International Community (BIC). The BIC represents the worldwide Baha'i community to the United Nations and regional institutions and collaborates with the UN and its specialized agencies, seeking to empower humanity to work effectively towards the spiritual and material betterment of all.

Bani Dugal is the Principal Representative of the Baha'i International Community to the UN. She is currently serving on the Steering Committee of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. She has served as President of the NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, as co-facilitator of the NGO Working Group on UN Access, co-facilitator of the GEAR campaign (Gender Equality Architecture Reform), Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, and Chair of the Global Forum of the NGO Committee on UNICEF and member of the Steering Committee of the NGO Committee on UNICEF’s Working Group on Girls, Convenor of the NGO Committee on UNIFEM and Convenor of the Advocates for African Food Security.

Systemic Racism: A Barrier to Global Peace

Sat 1st Aug 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Prof Hoda Mahmoudi

Racism is a persistent evil and a major barrier to global peace. The Baháʼí Chair for World Peace promotes its vision of peace centered around five themes. One of them is Structural Racism and the Root Causes of Prejudice. We are delighted to have Professor Hoda Mahmoudi, the holder of the Baha'i Chair, share with us her thoughts about how systemic racism is an impediment to global peace, and will explore solutions to the problem of race prejudice.

Professor Hoda Mahmoudi has held the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland since 2012. Previously professor Mahmoudi served as the head of the Research Department at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa and before that as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. She has presented her ideas on institutional change to forums like Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management and the Wharton Institute for Research on Higher Education. This month, Professor Mahmoudi published a book co-authored with Dr. Janet Khan titled A World Without War: 'Abdu'l-Baha and the Discourse for Global Peace (US Baha'i Publishing Trust 2020). In 2019, Professor Mahmoudi published two co-edited volumes Children and Globalization; Multidisciplinary Perspectives with Professor Steven Mintz (Routledge Publishing, 2019) and a volume Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights, co-edited with Professor Michael Penn (Emerald Publishing, 2019). In 2021, she will publish an edited volume with Professor Alison Brysk and Dr. Kate Seaman, titled The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar Publishing, 2021).

Resource for the talk

  • Message from the Universal House of Justice addressed to the Bahá'ís of the United States dated 22/07/2020

  • Compilation on Racial Unity by The Universal House of Justice

  • 'Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by 'Abdu'l-Baha during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912. Wilmette, IL: Baha'i Publishing Trust.

  • Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice.

  • Shoghi Effendi, Citadel of Faith.

  • Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah.

  • The Pupil of the Eye: African Americans in the World Order of Baha'u'llah. Compiled by Bonnie J. Taylor. Riviera Beach: FL: Palabra Publications

  • Gayle Morrison, To Move The World: Louis G. Gregory and the Advancement of Racial Unity. Wilmette, IL: Baha'i Publishing Trust.

  • Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

  • Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Crow.

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists.

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me.

  • Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased.

  • K. E. Fields and B. J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life.

  • Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Antiracist.

  • Ian Haney López, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.

  • https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631

The Power to Transform Society

Sun 19th Jul 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Dr Moojan Momen

We are delighted to welcome back Dr Moojan Momen to help us examine what is this power that can transform society. He will examine problems of the old world order and why many previous attempts (like the French and the various communist revolutions) to change it have failed, echoing the words of Baháʼu'lláh that "the prevailing order appeareth to be lamentably defective". He will also look at some of the activities of the present day Bahá'í community and the social structures they are building that help solve these problems.

Dr. Moojan Momen attended the University of Cambridge, where he studied medicine and subsequently also Arabic and Islamic Civilization. He has a special interest in the study of the Baha'i Faith and Shi`i Islam, both from the viewpoint of their history and their doctrines. In recent years, his interests have extended to the study of the phenomenon of religion. His principal publications in these fields include: Introduction to Shi`i Islam (Yale University Press, 1985); The Babi and Baha'i Faiths 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts (George Ronald, Oxford, 1982); and The Phenomenon of Religion (OneWorld, Oxford, 1999, republished as Understanding Religion, 2008). He has contributed articles to encyclopaedias such as Encyclopedia Iranica and Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World as well as papers to academic journals such as International Journal of Middle East Studies, Past and Present, Iran, Iranian Studies, Journal of Genocide Research and Religion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The One World Virus

Pandemics, Solidarity and Social Imagination

Sun 5th Jul 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Dr Payam Akhavan

Dr. Payam Akhavan will share examples of the inspiring resilience of the human spirit in times of suffering and how embracing the reality of our inextricable interdependence can liberate us from past dogmas so we can imagine a different future. He will also reflect on how the vision of Baháʼu'lláh and the Baháʼí teachings on the oneness of humankind that have shaped his perspectives and work.

Dr. Payam Akhavan is a UN prosecutor, human rights scholar, international lawyer and professor at McGill University in Canada. He is also a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, 2017 CBC Massey Lecturer and author of 'In Search of a Better World'.

Islam & the Baháʼí Faith

Sun 21st Jun 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Dr Moojan Momen

Dr Moojan Momen, accomplished scholar and historian of the Baháʼí Faith, host a session with us on Islam & the Baháʼí Faith. He will look at Islam in Iran in the 19th century, how the Shaykhi movement prepared the way for the Baháʼí religion, and how the Bab and Baha'u'llah related to Islam.

In Context: Talks of the Master

Sat 6th Jun 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Amín Egea

As we approach the centenary of the Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, we are delighted to share with you another special session on The Master. Amín Egea, author of The Apostle Of Peace, has spent many years researching ‛Abdu'l-Bahá's travels to the West, and he will be sharing with us unique insights into the context behind some of ‛Abdu'l-Bahá's public talks.

Letters to the Kings of the world

Sun 24th May 2020, 4pm (UK time)

Dr Steven Vickers

You may wonder about the monarchs who the Blessed Beauty addressed - who were they, where did they come from and what happened to them? Join us for an indepth look hosted by Dr. Stephen Vickers and Pete Baldwin. Please feel free to share the invitation with your family and friends.

Some moments with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Sat 9th May 2020, 5.00pm (UK time)

Tahir Taherzadeh

As we approach the centenary of the Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, we are delighted to have a special storytelling afternoon with Mr Tahir Taherzadeh. Please join us to hear stories of the Master.

Knights of Baháʼu'lláh

Saturday 18 Apr 2020, 3pm (UK time)

Sean Hinton

We would like to invite you to a talk by Sean Hinton. As a youth, Sean moved to Mongolia and was later named a Knight of Baháʼu'lláh. He will be sharing with us his special experiences of serving the Faith there. We hope you will be able to join us for this presentation, and for us all to gain inspiration and encouragement to help us on our spiritual journey.