New Arrivals

Brilliant Star: Be a Candle, Vol. 51, No. 4. This issue honors the life and example of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and encourages kids to consider how they can be of service to others. It includes these engaging stories and activities:

• Explore the life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, which was dedicated to serving humanity and the Bahá’í Faith;
• Invite friends and family to take on a two-week service challenge;
• Discover puzzles and activities that inspire you to put kindness into action;
• Quiz yourself on how well you listen to yourself and others;
• Create a cactus garden gift to celebrate resilience;
• Find out how Bahá’ís created the first race amity convention in 1921;
• Interview people you admire about how and why they serve humanity;
• Get to know Ridvan Foxhall, who empowers kids to express their virtues and cultures onstage and in their communities.

No matter where your strengths and interests lie, your acts of kindness can be candles that light up our world!

This book turns a searchlight on the services and sacrifices of one of the Hands of the Cause of God who is less known in the West, but whose life story is unique. From a young age he had the honor of serving on Bahá’í administrative organizations in Iran, including the National Spiritual Assembly from its inception in 1934. He travelled internationally on several continents, particularly in Asia, presenting the essential contribution of the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh to universal peace, justice, education, and development. Shu‘a‘u’lláh ‘Alá’í’s many gifts of intellect and spirit, his candour and simplicity, as well as his sunny disposition, endeared him to many during his lifetime and will be newly appreciated by present-day readers.

This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in the wider community, becoming in the process one of the country’s most diverse religious bodies. Spanning from the start of the twentieth century to the early twenty-first, the essays in this volume examine aspects of the phenomenon of this religion confronting America’s original sin of racism and the significant roles African Americans came to play in the development of the Bahá’í Faith’s culture, identity, administrative structures, and aspirations.

Includes essays by Loni Bramson, Christopher Buck, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Louis Venters, Mike McMullen, and June Manning Thomas

This book is the masterful Farsi translation of the second edition (2017, GRBooks) of the book from English by Dr. Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. It examines the materialist concept of life and its destructive damage to individuals' welfare and societies' well-being worldwide. Material philosophy believes that matter takes precedence over mind and soul. According to such a concept, the human mind, consciousness, and soul are by-products of matter, and those who believe otherwise are "idealists." On the contrary, the Baha’i teachings advocate a logical and moderate balance between spiritual and material life as two pillars of a just civilization.

The Divine Mystery is a digital album. The booklet contains a unique code to download the music.

A new album by Elika Mahony that includes eleven songs and a booklet in honor of the centenary of the Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The lyrics to ten of the songs are from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, and the eleventh is an arrangement the well-known poem "Hold Thou my Hand," written in His honor. All the lyrics are printed in the booklet and each booklet includes a unique code to download the music. The booklet comes wrapped in a gold chiffon bag.