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Editor’s Choice: 9 Articles You Might’ve Missed in 2013

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Editor’s Choice: 9 Articles You Might’ve Missed in 2013

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By the Editors | Dec 31, 2013

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Looking back over more than 500 articles we published in 2013, the editors chose several outstanding contributions to BahaiTeachings.org we thought you may want to read or re-read.

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1. The Baha’i Fast… Slowly by Rainn Wilson

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2. Fashionable and Spiritual? by Gouya Zamani

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3. The Only Worldwide Election by Shannon Higgins

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4. Love, Light and the Near-Death Experience by Nancy Lee Harper

Process of the Tree Life in Five Stages.

5. Notes from a New Baha’i – Timelines by Holiday Reinhorn

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6. Helen Keller – Author, Activist, Baha’i? by David Langness

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7. Can We Defeat Depression? by the Editors

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8. Baha’is and Guns by David Langness

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9. Unity: Love Without Limits by Baha’i Writings

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