- Posted 2024-09-08 in Library Miscellany: Download Bahá'í Library Online: Offline Archive of All Files (2024). Downloadable version of entire website, designed for use on your computer without need for internet. Download direct from archive.org, or by BitTorrent.
- Posted 2024-09-02 in Glossaries & Dictionaries: Adib Masumian. Arabic and Persian Originals of Metaphysical Terms in the Bahá'í Writings (2024). Transliteration with Arabic and Persian script of the words soul, spirit, self, mind, heart, and spirit of faith.
- Posted 2024-09-01 in Published articles: Tova Makhani-Belkin. "I woke up and knew, spiritually, I have just accepted the faith": Agency and Dream Ethnography in the Bahá'í Faith (2024). Analysis of first-generation Bahá'ís' dreams and visions as confirming their religious conversion, emphasizing dreams' role in integrating prior beliefs and aiding conversion.
- Posted 2024-08-30 in Published articles: T. Crouther Gordon. Bahaism and Christianity: or, The Religion of 'The Splendour of God' (1927). Sympathetic overview of the Faith, and impressions from a visit to Haifa.
- Posted 2024-08-30 in Bahá'í Writings: Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg) (2024). Authorized translation of Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Georg David Hardegg, co-founder of the German Templer Society, emphasizing devotion, fulfillment of prophecies, and the transformative power of the Word of God.
- Posted 2024-08-23 in Bahá'í Writings: Bahá'u'lláh. Signs for the Coming of Age of the Human Race (1992). Passage from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, posted as a standalone page here for ease of reference and tagging purposes.
- Posted 2024-08-20 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Adoption and Parent Consent (2003). Short compilation of extracts from letters written on behalf of the House on various matters relating to adoption.
- Posted 2024-08-20 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. In Vitro Fertilization and Related Issues (2003). Short compilation of excerpts from the House on IVF, artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood, and the condition of the soul in relation to the
various techniques to assist in the fertilization of the ovum.
- Posted 2024-08-20 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Infertility and Medical Intervention, Station of Adoption, and Adoption and Parental Consent (2003). Compilation of passages from the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and from the Universal House of Justice on matters of having children in a family, with links to the letters "In Vitro Fertilization and Related Issues" and "Adoption and Parent Consent."
- Posted 2024-08-01 in Songs & Music: Lorraine Hetu Manifold. Fifteen Steps to Becoming a Skilled Choral Singer (2024). On Abdu'l-Bahá's exhortations to bring music to the highest stage of development: 15 techniques for improving one's own skill, both as an individual and as a member of a choir, written by an experienced conductor.
- Posted 2024-08-01 in Letters from the Universal House of Justice: Universal House of Justice. Message on the occasion of the opening of the 2014 World Cup (2914). Letter in response to the Brazilian president's invitation for a statement on global peace and harmony, reflecting the Brazilian government's aim to leverage the World Cup to further the cause of peace and combat racial discrimination.
- Posted 2024-07-31 in Bahá'í Writings: Bahá'u'lláh. Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity (1939). Well-known passage from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, posted as a standalone page here for ease of reference and tagging purposes.
- Posted 2024-07-30 in Presentations: Roger Coe. AI and the Human Spirit: From Existential Risk to Essential Development (2024). Presentation on numerous topics, including risks and potentialities of AI; Chinese philosophy; cybernetics, the "science of science"; philosophies of psychology; theories of pedagogy.
- Posted 2024-07-30 in Audio: Shoghi Effendi. Nosheen Shabani, comp. ندا باهل عالم (Neda be-ahle allam): "Call to the Nations" audio. Audio of Call to the Nations, read by a group of Bahá'ís from Canada, Australia, Kuwait, and Iran, produced by Nosheen Shabani.
- Posted 2024-07-29 in Pilgrims' notes: Ted Cardell. One Person's Search for a Better World (1992).
- Posted 2024-07-25 in Notable talks: Ali Nakhjavani. Thoughts on the Lesser Peace, Some (1984). Lengthy talk given at the World Centre for the Ihtifál (celebration) programme on general guidelines on peace and world unity, and statements from the Writings that appear to be contradictory.
- Posted 2024-07-25 in Glossaries & Dictionaries: Hamed Eshraghian, comp. مجموعۀ لغات منتخبه از آثار امری بزبانهای فارسی، عربی و انگلیسی (Majmú'iy-i-Lughát-i-Muntakhabih az Áthár-i-Amrí bih Zabán-háy-i-Fársí, 'Arabí, va Inglísí): A Collection of Selected Words from the Bahá'í Writings in Persian, Arabic, and English (1989). Glossary with more than 2,200 words in the original languages of the Writings and their corresponding translations into English per authorized precedent.
- Posted 2024-07-24 in BIC documents: Bahá'í International Community. Common Goal of Universal Peace in Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith, The: A Paper delivered to the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (1990). Statement on the launching of "The Promise of World Peace" initiative, shared principles of Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith, and some of the barriers to world peace and the role that religions must play.
- Posted 2024-07-24 in Essays and short articles: Ted Cardell. Highly Significant Celebrations at the World Center (1992). Report of activities at the World Centre in May 1992: commemoration of the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, placing of a scroll to honour the Knights of Bahá'u'lláh, and a procession of pilgrims up Mount Carmel.
- Posted 2024-07-24 in Pilgrims' notes: Ted Cardell. Pilgrim Notes (1952). Notes from a visit with the Guardian, likely written in 1990 from journal entries taken while on pilgrimage in 1952 from a pioneering post in Kenya.
- Posted 2024-07-24 in Essays and short articles: Ted Cardell. Report of the International Teaching Team to the Far East (1987). Summary of activities of 36 Bahá'ís who left the United States in November 1987 to visit Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
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