New Arrivals

A fifteen-month wall calendar for 177 B.E., made in collaboration with Nineteen Months (nineteenmonths.com). Each page contains a vivid photograph taken by Bahá’í photographers living in or visiting places all over the world. This is a fifteen-page Bahá’í wall calendar.

Bahá’i Datebook (177 B.E.)

A pocket-size calendar ranging from January 2020 until March 2021

The world is facing multiple, overlapping crises at every scale—local, national, and global. How do we begin to untangle these problems when everyone has a different opinion? How do we integrate such divergent viewpoints and work together to create lasting solutions? Consultation is a powerful tool for group collaboration. This book offers an introduction to consultation as well as practical steps and questions for readers to begin integrating the principle of consultation into their lives.

Humanity has been passing through stages of collective growth towards integration and unity. Our current collective crises--climate change, financial upheavals, proliferation of nuclear weapons, gross human rights atrocities, mismanagement of critical natural resources--manifest our passage through a turbulent adolescence. This book analyzes why and how humanity can take the next step towards maturity by establishing collective decision-making institutions that can evolve into a world federation of nation-states. Only then will we have a truly peaceful world. Translated into Arabic.

A set of two flat cards and envelopes with a Bahá’í prayer for marriage with a floral border. The prayer on the front of the card reads:

O my Lord! O my Lord! These two bright orbs are wedded in Thy love, conjoined in servitude to Thy Holy Threshold, united in ministering to thy Cause. Make Thou this marriage to be as threading lights of Thine abounding grace, O my Lord, the All-Merciful, and luminous rays of Thy bestowals, O Thou the Beneficent, the Ever-Giving, that there may branch out from this great tree boughs that will grow green and flourishing through the gifts that rain down from Thy clouds of grace. Verily, Thou art the Generous. Verily, Thou art the Compassionate, the All-Merciful.

Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise the alarm about deforestation and desertification and by finding effective, culturally sensitive ways for people to contribute to a more peaceful and greener world. Richard was a Bahá’í and met the Guardian during his visit to the Holy Land in 1929. Shoghi Effendi became a lifetime member of St. Barbe Baker’s environmental organization, Men of the Trees (later renamed International Tree Foundation), and they continued to correspond with each other through letters over the course of many years. With a foreword by Prince Charles of Wales and an introduction by Jane Goodall, this biography is sure to inspire environmentally-conscious readers everywhere.