Non-Partisanship - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/non-partisanship/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:43:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 6 Baha’i Concepts for Life Beyond Adversarial Politics https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-concepts-life-beyond-adversarial-politics/ https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-concepts-life-beyond-adversarial-politics/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=37911 6 Baha’i Concepts for Life Beyond Adversarial PoliticsHow do we move towards a more inclusive reality beyond the trappings of adversarial partisan politics? We might want to try these six unity-building principles from the Baha’i teachings. They...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/weve-reached-limits-partisan-politics/feed/ 9 My 3 Rules for Changing the World—Without Partisan Politics https://bahaiteachings.org/rules-changing-world-without-partisan-politics/ https://bahaiteachings.org/rules-changing-world-without-partisan-politics/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=34370 My 3 Rules for Changing the World—Without Partisan PoliticsI imagine, like most people at this moment in history, that we all struggle with how to engage in discourse about the world’s recent events. Do you? Everyone knows that...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/what-do-we-do-when-democracy-falters/feed/ 0 What Could Replace the Politics of Chaos? https://bahaiteachings.org/what-could-replace-politics-chaos/ https://bahaiteachings.org/what-could-replace-politics-chaos/#respond Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:00:36 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=64888 When Baha’u’llah described “the prevailing order” of the world as “lamentably defective,” what was he referring to? How do the Baha’i teachings explain that startling statement? Baha’u’llah, the prophet and...

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