Dan Bartmess

To all who hold the promise of America in their hearts... #Bahai #togetherasone #America250 #spiritualrenewal www.acommonendeavor.org#section-III-...

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Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social)

It's like how people use to panic over polio and the measles, then for some weird reason they stopped talking about those diseases, and now we're talking about them again. This willful ignorance of cause & effect is literally killing us. How do we as a society even begin to fix this?

"Four decades after it was written, The Promise of World Peace remains what it was in 1985: not a prediction of how peace will come, but a map of what it will require." bahaiworld.bahai.org/library/the-...

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"Partisan political systems are not the 'end of history.' Democracy must continue to evolve." open.substack.com/pub/pauljhan...

“Laid before us are new options scarcely dreamed of in earlier ages. They empower us to address with confidence the greatest goal of all time, the unity of the human race.” open.substack.com/pub/pauljhan...

In a time when many are searching for meaning and hope, this video explores spiritual renewal as a source of personal and social transformation. narratives.bahai.us/post/thought... #ACommonEndeavor #unityindiversity #spiritualgrowth

#Bahai #acommonendeavor #spiritualrenewal #america250 youtu.be/JI_0xAnPwtc?...

I lol'd at this.😆

They turned empathy into an insult! @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and I break down how smear words are used to train people away from empathy and toward fear and outrage. This clip gets at something deeper than politics. It shows how language shapes belief. Full video here: youtu.be/fV-medb-Ou0

Happy Nowruz, New York City.   As Persian and other communities welcome the new year, I joined our team to learn about the Haft-seen table — a tradition rooted in renewal, reflection, and hope.   Wishing you all a new year filled with peace, light, and understanding.

Stable genius.

#Bahai www.bic.org/news/young-b...

Happy Naw-Rúz to all who celebrate! bahaiteachings.org/happy-bahai-...

“Beware lest your rule violate the commandments of God, and ye deliver your wards to the hands of the robber. By them ye rule, by their means ye subsist, by their aid ye conquer. Yet how disdainfully ye look upon them! How strange, how very strange!” -Bahá’u’lláh

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. —BAHÁ’U’LLÁH

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and the fundamental oneness of religion.” - ‘Abdu’l-Bahá #Bahai

An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) summing up the current situation:

"The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion."—‘Abdu’l-Bahá bahaiteachings.org/a-new-cycle-...

For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

“Be united, O concourse of the sovereigns of the world, for thereby will the tempest of discord be stilled amongst you, and your peoples find rest. Should any one among you take up arms against another, rise ye all against him, for this is naught but manifest justice.”—Bahá’u’lláh

New two-part podcast explores the largely hidden history of significant #Bahai contributions to education, governance, and social reform in 19th century Iran. news.bahai.org/podcasts/ins...

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Just need ONE reporter to say 'As Speaker of the House, don't you think that you should be more aware of things going on in the country?'

“Consultation is essential to addressing contemporary challenges, say Bahá’í delegates at the 8th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.” #Bahai news.bahai.org/story/1827/k...

“This year’s event drew ambassadors and diplomatic representatives from countries including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Kenya, Tanzania, and Vietnam, many of whom were accompanied by their families.” #Bahai news.bahai.org/story/1826/t...

In the latest podcast episode of “In Conversation,” guests from the United States describe how young people are learning to foster strong bonds of friendship across diverse backgrounds and discovering ways to serve together. news.bahai.org/podcasts/in-...

In the latest episode of “Insights from the Field,” participants from the 49th annual conference of the Association for Bahá’í Studies (ABS) in North America explore how spiritual principles can inform academic inquiry across diverse professional fields. news.bahai.org/podcasts/ins...

This pretty much sums it it up. And tbh, it’s not just America. the Baha’i view is that human society in general is in a stage comparable to adolescence. We have the tools and information we need to advance to maturity, we just simply don’t want to yet.

“In a society where conversations around ethnic identity are prominent, the podcast seeks to offer a more unifying concept—one that promotes a broader understanding of our shared identity as human beings.” #Bahai news.bahai.org/story/1824/e...

Are we great again yet?

So he agrees the president is unhinged and unwell, even though he didn’t see it, but it doesn’t matter because some unnamed people on the other side are too? Did I get that right?

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

“The pivotal principle from the Bahá’í Faith, is that we are a human family. This is an ontological truth... and we can only thrive on this planet to the extent that we can express that underlying reality in our lives collectively and individually.” news.bahai.org/story/1823/r...

“Soon will the present-day order be rolled up, and a new one spread out in its stead.” “After a time, all the governments on earth will change. Oppression will envelop the world. And following a universal convulsion, the sun of justice will rise from the horizon of the unseen realm.” —Bahá’u’lláh