On the wisdom of searching for the truth with eyes wide open.

"Physical life is not ultimate reality," and it is only the soul that is real, writes Baha'i Joyce Fuller Kleikamp in 'Faith & Action: Mere Illusion.'

Thoughts from a new Baha'i on embracing the Baha'i Faith, full on, gradually.

“You know the ones. The ones you're afraid to say. The ones that, once spoken, will unleash torrents of tests and difficulties . . . designed and engineered to carve away the soft rock of your being, revealing the noble creation that God intended.”

On the Planet Baha'i website, Dale E. Lehman talks about the nature of friendship as expressed in Baha’u’llah’s Hidden Words, a collection of 153 brief expressions of spiritual truths.

In “Sticks, Stones and Fire” on his Baha'i Thought and Black America blog, Phillipe Copeland mourns the death of more than 50 villagers in the recent church fire in Nairobi, Kenya, where ethnic violence erupted following that country’s national election held on Dec. 27.

Anything you ever wanted to know about the Baha'i Faith and weren't afraid to ask is out there in the blogosphere.

"In a perfect world, we'd spend more time talking about spiritual things instead of minutiae," says Phyllis Edgerly Ring, a Baha'i columnist featured on www.religionandspirituality.com .