Last week, I broke the trust of someone important to me. The details are unimportant. But the principles involved and the road to redemption are worth discussion.

Sunday recalled another anniversary, the public hangings, on June 18, 1983, of 10 Baha’i women in Shiraz, Iran.

The fourth precept I’m writing about for this series is on refraining from wrong speech.

Sharing Juneteenth with people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds and united by a common faith is one of the most powerful ways to celebrate. 

The ruling was completely unexpected. By a 7-2 vote on June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). It is a major victory for Indigenous tribes and their right to remain sovereign nations, their people controlling their own destiny and their children to stay in their own culture.

The 86-year-old pope underwent an abdominal surgery and recovered at the hospital for 10 days.