Bahá'í.FYI
A comfy online community for people of all (or no) faiths to explore the Bahá'í Faith, its writings, and its vision.
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This Gemini capsule is a companion to our website that'll store some interesting files related to the Bahá'í Faith. It's similar, but not identical, in content to our Gopher hole.
If nothing on this capsule makes sense, feel free to hang out with us via the links above 😌
Study hall
Links for your personal reference, all related to the Bahá'í Faith.
Official
Bahá'í texts
Places to find copies of Bahá'í texts online.
Bahaipedia
Bahaipedia is a multilingual reference website for information relating to the Bahá'í Faith.
The List™
A compendium of Bahá'í-related links to WWW resources put together by a redditor on r/bahai. This list is quite extensive, but some of the links may no longer be active.
Language and the Bahá'í Faith
A short article about the role of language in the Bahá'í Faith, and the concepts of universal auxiliary language and constructed language, including the place of Esperanto in Bahá'í history.
Archives
Wayback archives
Text files from way, way back in Internet history. These are mainly hosted here on Gemini.
Gemlog archives
Archived blog / social media posts in gemlog format, showcasing the best of the era when the social web was actually useful. (More coming soon)
Archived posts from r/bahai, the home of the Bahá'í Faith on Reddit - in gemlog form.
Other interesting stuff
Things found in various places on teh smolnet.
Games
A daily acrostic puzzle game where you guess words found in Bahá'í texts.
A simple thesaurus to help you with those impossible-to-guess words.
A flowery adaptation of the Flood puzzle popularized by Simon Tatham.
Quotes and Scripture
A Baha'i quote bot on Tootik (Fediverse gateway on Gemini).
Textfiles.com has a collection of excerpts from world scripture on different themes, some of which refer to the Baha'i writings. Archived from the original at spam.works.
Interesting posts
Archived posts from dragfyre's long-running blogs, doberman pizza and baha'i children's class ideas - in gemlog form.
Reflections on the Baha'i worldview, particularly as it concerns ethics, values, and the use of technology to transform society.
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