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Maya
Bohnhoff

San Jose, CA

Maya Bohnhoff is a Baha'i, a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction, fantasy and alternate history, and a performing and recording musician/singer/songwriter (with her husband Jeff). She is the author of a dozen novels and her short fiction has appeared in Analog, Interzone, Baen's Universe, Paradox and Amazing Stories. She is a founding member of the Book View Café where she writes a bi-monthly blog, and she blogs weekly at www.commongroundgroup.net.

BY Maya Bohnhoff

What Are the Core Baha’i Beliefs?

Maya Bohnhoff | May 29, 2023

How Do Baha’is Worship?

Maya Bohnhoff | May 22, 2023

How Can the United States Establish Equity and Equality?

Maya Bohnhoff | Jan 11, 2023

How Can We Define – and Recognize – Systemic Racism?

Maya Bohnhoff | Jan 4, 2023

My Neighborhood Wonders: Why Can’t We Just Teach Goodwill?

Maya Bohnhoff | Dec 27, 2022

Why Do Some People Believe Racism Is in the Past?

Maya Bohnhoff | Dec 19, 2022

Critical Race Theory: Challenge and Opportunity in Our Schools

Maya Bohnhoff | Dec 12, 2022

CRT: Why Should We Teach the History of Race in America?

Maya Bohnhoff | Dec 5, 2022

Atheists, the Creator, and Creation –that Chicken and Egg Question

Maya Bohnhoff | Nov 30, 2022

My Response to Racist Views on Skin Color and Criminality

Maya Bohnhoff | Jun 2, 2022

Abdu’l-Baha: Radical Anti-Racist

Maya Bohnhoff | Dec 30, 2021

How Does the Baha’i Faith Propose to Unify the World?

Maya Bohnhoff | Sep 26, 2021

Unity in Diversity: Is Peace on Earth the Future?

Maya Bohnhoff | Sep 22, 2021

Why I Believe People Should Intermarry

Maya Bohnhoff | Sep 18, 2021

What I Said to a Racial Separatist

Maya Bohnhoff | Sep 15, 2021

Life, Matter and the God Particle

Maya Bohnhoff | Oct 10, 2020

Refugees: A New Parable of the Good Samaritan

Maya Bohnhoff | Jun 2, 2020

Does God Hate Anyone?

Maya Bohnhoff | Aug 21, 2019

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The whole idea of work is evolving – which means

The whole idea of work is evolving – which means the conceptions of what it means to foster social well-being must therefore expand and evolve in response. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #Work #SocialJustice

As the soul grows, its capacity increases. Capacit

As the soul grows, its capacity increases. Capacity is the measure of development. Love is the evidence of capacity. When we love humanity as God loves us, we have reached the perfect station. Eternal Life is then ours, and this mortal world can give us nothing more. Do good each day, if only by speaking a kind word. - #AbdulBaha #Bahai #Spirituality #Love #Kindness
(Ten Days in the Light of Akka)

War, injustice, poverty, racism, superstition, env

War, injustice, poverty, racism, superstition, environmental degradation, and oppression must end, the Baha'i teachings say. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #WorldPeace #Change

The Lord, peerless is He, hath made woman and man

The Lord, peerless is He, hath made woman and man to abide with each other in the closest companionship, and to be even as a single soul. They are two helpmates, two intimate friends, who should be concerned about the welfare of each other. - #AbdulBaha #Bahai #Spirituality #Marriage #Love
(Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá)

The Baha'i writings describes marriage as a “for

The Baha'i writings describes marriage as a “fortress for well-being and salvation.” The purpose of marriage, then, involves improving the spiritual life of your partner. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #Love #Marriage #Couples

Love is the greatest law in this vast universe of

Love is the greatest law in this vast universe of God! Love is the one law which causeth and controleth order among the existing atoms! Love is the universal magnetic power between the planets and stars shining in the loft firmament! Love is the cause of unfoldment to a searching mind, of the secrets deposited in the universe by the Infinite! Love is the spirit of life in the bountiful body of the world! Love is the cause of the civilization of nations in this mortal world! Love is the highest honor to every righteous nation! - #AbdulBaha #Bahai #Spirituality #Love
(Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas)

Baha'is believe that Baha’u’llah, an Arabic na

Baha'is believe that Baha’u’llah, an Arabic name meaning “the Glory of God,” is the most recent in a succession of divine prophets and teachers that goes back into prehistory. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #BahaiFaith

One must see in every human being only that which

One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task. - #AbdulBaha⠀ #bahai #spirituality #friendship #worldunity #humanity ⠀
(Selections From the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá)

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