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Episode 38: The Ridvan Message of 2025
An exploration of the Universal House of Justice's Ridvan message for 2025. Includes an exploration of the construct of 'hope' - a summary of key achievements over th...
Episode 37: The Bahá’í Home
An exploration of two key messages by the Universal House of Justice exploring Bahá’í family life: The message of March 19th, 2025 and its Naw Ruz message (2025) to t...
Episode 36: Bahá’í Approaches to Social Action (Part Four - Learning in Action)
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part Four, we explore how our approaches need to facil...
Episode 35: Bahá’í Approaches to Social Action (Part Three - Capacity Building)
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part Three we explore the power of capacity building -...
Episode 34: Baha'i Approaches to Social Action (Part Two - Participation and Agency)
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part Two, we explore how our approaches should be part...
Episode 33: Bahá’í Approaches to Social Action (Part One - Organic Growth & Coherence)
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to social action, one of the key pillars of 'society building'. In Part One, we explore two key principles: Organic Growt...
Episode 32: Bahá’í Approaches to Depolarization (Part Three)
The third and final episode in a sequence exploring Bahá’í-inspired approaches to depolarization.Part three explores how to break false binaries and how to optimize co...
Episode 31: Bahá’í Approaches to Depolarization (Part Two)
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to depolarization building on what we've been learning over the past few episodes from the world's leading luminaries in t...
Episode 30: Bahá’í Approaches to Depolarization (Part One)
An exploration of Bahá’í-inspired approaches to depolarization building on what we've been learning over the past few episodes from the world's leading luminaries in t...
Episode 29: The Ridvan Message of 2024
An exploration of the Ridvan Message of 2024 by the Universal House of Justice.The message explores the interaction between the forces of disintegration and integratio...
Episode 28: The Naw Ruz Message of 2024
In this episode we explore the recent message which the Universal House of Justice sent to the Baha'is in Iran on Naw Ruz (March 20th, 2024). The message is not only ...
Episode 27: The Science of Depolarization (Interview with Nealin Parker)
An interview with Nealin Parker, Executive Director of Common Ground USA, exploring the range of like-minded organizations contributing to depolarization (including ov...
Episode 26: The Science of Depolarization (Interview with Dr. Lisa Schirch)
An interview with Dr. Lisa Schirch, a global authority on social media's impact on polarization. Here, Dr. Schirch explains how the algorithms that drive social media ...
Episode 25: The Science of Depolarizaton (Interview with Andrea Bartoli)
An interview with Andrea Bartoli, former dean of a number of prestigious conflict resolution schools; diplomat; and President of the Sant'Egidio Foundation for Peace a...
Episode 24: Treasures of Wisdom from the Past Century (Exploring the Message of the Universal House of Justice of November 28, 2023)
On November 28, 2023, the Universal House of Justice shared its message providing a history of our organic evolution as a community over the past hundred years. This ...
Episode 23: The Science of Depolarization (Interview with Rabbi Roly Matalon)
An interview with Rabbi Roly Matalon sharing his efforts to promote depolarization including an amazing exchange which saw representatives of his very progressive-libe...
Episode 22: The Science of Depolarization (Interview with Gary Friedman)
An interview with global pioneer in mediation training, Gary Friedman, co-founder of the Center for Understanding in Conflict which has trained over 10,000 mediators. ...
Episode 21: The Science of Polarization (Interview with Dr. Peter Coleman)
An interview with award-winning scholar, Dr. Peter Coleman, sharing his research at Columbia University's 'Difficult Conversations Lab', exploring the variables best c...
Episode 20: The Science of Depolarization (Interview with Amanda Ripley)
An interview with award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley who shares insights on the science of bringing antagonistic groups together based on her recent best-selling b...
Episode 19: Engaging With Discourse
How can you best engage withe the prevalent discourses of society? In this episode, we explore FIVE stages one should consider in engaging with a discourse:Prioritizi...
Episode 18: What is Discourse?
The term 'discourse' means different things to different academic disciplines. There's a difference, for example, between political vs. scientific discourse. In this...
Episode 17: The Ridvan Message of 2023
Hot off the press, this episode explores the 2023 Ridvan Message of the Universal House of Justice to the Baha'is of the World, celebrating the key achievements of the...
Episode 16: A Mandate for Society Building - Part Three (Summary of the UHJ Message of 2021)
This episode, the third in our trilogy, continues our study of the message of the Universal House of Justice of December 30, 2021, providing us with our mandate for so...
Episode 15: A Mandate for Society Building - Part Two (Summary of UHJ Message of 2021)
This episode, the second in our trilogy, continues our study of the message of the Universal House of Justice of December 30, 2021 providing us with our mandate for so...
Episode 14: A Mandate for Society Building - Part One (Summary of UHJ Message of 2021)
This is the first of a three part trilogy exploring the message of the Universal House of Justice of December 30, 2021 laying out the vision for Society Building for t...
Episode 13: Championing Race Unity (Part Three)
The third in a three part trilogy exploring how the early American Baha'i community championed race unity - perhaps the best example of society building by Baha'is in ...
Episode 12: Championing Race Unity (Part Two)
The second in a 3 part sequence exploring how the early American Baha'i community championed race unity - perhaps the best example of society building by Baha'is in th...
Episode 11: Championing Race Unity (Part One)
The first in a 3 part sequence exploring how the early American Baha'i community championed race unity - perhaps the best example of society building by Baha'is in the...
Episode 10: The Transformation of Education in Iran (Part Two)
This episode continues our interview with Dr. Moojan Momen on the transformation of education in Iran by the Persian Baha'i community in the early part of the 20th cen...
Episode 9: Transforming Education in Iran (Part One)
At a time when Iran was almost entirely illiterate, the Persian Baha'i community promulgated a network of over 60 schools throughout the entire Iranian nation. This i...