Starting Points:

• Ahang Rabbani’s Translations. This website offers translations and scholarly works offering insights into Bahá’í history.
• H-Baha'i electronic publications. This website offers a variety of scholarly papers and translations related to the Baha'i Faith.
• Bahais Online. This is a sort of news service with some of the best content related to the Baha’i world community and the religion.
• Bahá’í Online Library. This is a source for original Baha’i texts and papers. Primary sources and secondary sources are available here.
• Who is Baha’u’llah? This is a website with some good insights into the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh.
• Short Biography of Baha'u'llah. This is my favorite short biography of Bahá’u’lláh.

More information:

• Baha'i Spirituality. An essay on Baha'i Spirituality.
• Main Page for Baha'i Information. This is an official webpage about the Baha’i Faith.
• Baha'is in Taiwan. The official Website for the Baha'is of Taiwan.
• Chinese Language Baha'i Website. This website is for friends who want to read in Chinese about the Baha'i Faith. Set your web browser page encoding to “Chinese Traditional Big-5” to read some of the pages on this site if you get something that seems unreadable.
• Baha'i Information in Chinese. Friends from Malaysia and China may prefer to read about the Faith in simplified characters.
• Baha'i Information. A web-based magazine format information source describing the Baha'i Faith. A good introduction.
• Persecution of Baha'is. There are places in this world where it isn't safe to be a Baha'i.

Baha'i Sites and Blogs:

• Scripture Rock. Nahüm's recordings of prayers and scriptures of several religions.
• Baha'i Rants Blog. A blog that offers some critical but sympathetic views of the Baha'i community. I have posted comments here.
• Book of Certitude Blog. This blog goes page-by-page over the Kitab-i-Iqan. It's one of the best religious blogs I know.
• Meditations on Baha'u'llah Blog. This blog offers one individual’s insights and reactions to the scriptures, as well as some other observations on personal growth.
• Sen McGlinn's Blog. A fine Baha'i Blog.
• Baha'i Web Studies. A website for study of the Baha'i Faith.

Baha'i Books:

• Kalimat Press. Is probably the best source for good Baha'i books that can't otherwise be found in electronic versions on the Internet.
• Special Ideas Bookshop. This business sells Baha'i books and many other things, including T-shirts, buttons, cards, and so forth.
• Ruhi Books. Throughout the Baha'i world community many of us are studying courses based around books called "Ruhi Books."
• Baha'i Distribution Service. In 1989 I had a summer internship in the Baha'i Distribution Service. This is a fine place to purchase Baha'i Books.
• True Seeker Online Literature Search. This is a website where you can search the primary Baha'i sources (those in English) for phrases or words.

My Baha'i Materials:

• My own Compilation on Springtime imagery from the Baha'i Writings.
• My own Compilation on Dreams from the Baha'i scriptures and literature.
• A Compilation of passages with the word "breath" from the Baha'i scriptures and literature.
• Some notes I wrote on the concept of death in the Baha'i Faith.
• A devotional program using a prayer of detachment (with annotated footnotes).
• A reaction exercise I wrote for myself after reading one of the Ridvan messages from the Universal House of Justice back in the mid-1990s.
• A few readings I collected on the concept of commandments and laws in religion.
• Some readings I chose on the subject of detachment.
• A set of devotional readings for a Halloween devotional meeting.
• My collection of passages for a devotional meeting about supplication.
• Some devotional readings for the Baha'i month of Izzat.
• Notes I took on a talk given by Paul Lample.
• Materials for a workshop on interpersonal relationships. [PDF 194 KB]