Episode 28: The Naw Ruz Message of 2024

In this episode we explore the recent message which the Universal House of Justice sent to the Baha'is in Iran on Naw Ruz (March 20th, 2024). The message is not only important for the love and admiration which the Universal House of Justice showers on the Persian Bahá’i community, suffering under intense and relentless persecution, but also because in many ways, it represents the next chapter, building on its November 28, 2023 message - helping us navigate a path to universal peace. The episode also explores the Universal House of Justice's message of January 18, 2019, which they reference here, exploring strategies for peace building and the promotion of the oneness of the human race.
Key references
Mar 20, 2024 Naw Ruz Message: payamha-iran.org/en/document/833
Nov 28, 2023 Message: www.bahai.org/library/authori...
Jan 18, 2019 Message: www.bahai.org/library/authori...
CONTENTS:
0:00 Introduction
2:12 Love for Persian Baha’is
7:55 State of the World
12:40 Key Milestones for Peace
19:44 Disintegration on the Rise
24:07 A Crisis of Identity
29:36 Agency & Peace Building
34:11 Peace as Meta Narrative
37:19 Closing Thoughts

[@zekrollahaflatuni3822]

Thanks a lot dear Duane for all these wonderful progrsms . Please keep on the great work!!

[@SocietyBuilders]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[@prladue]

Thank you so much!!

[@SocietyBuilders]

Thanks!

[@lovemusic20ification]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ peace

[@SocietyBuilders]

Thanks

[@helenvloeberghs6978]

This is ver helpful for our study of Ruhi book 14 by giving insights and vision into our efforts towards undertaking public discourse. Your summaries clarify a lot of information into more easily accessible ideas to convey to others. What a gift. Thank you.

[@SocietyBuilders]

So kind. I’m glad you found it useful.

[@barbralevinepakravan1274]

Thank you very much for this and the other wonderful conversations and talks. Wondering, would you be free to have a zoom chat for an hour or so on these supremely important points, by chance? 😊Thought to give it a try.

[@SocietyBuilders]

Thanks for that. Always happy to have a Zoom call. Drop me an email at varan @ mediascience.com (without the spaces I included to avoid auto detectors scraping it) and we'll set something up. Also - let me know what time zone you're in so we can coordinate. Thanks

[@barbralevinepakravan1274]

@@SocietyBuilders Thank you. Exciting!

[@helenvloeberghs6978]

It would be so very helpful if you could do a simple, but profound, discourse on world peace on RUclips yourself as a model for us. We are trying to do it ourselves, in small efforts, for example at our regular devotional {in a rural area} we engage with friends on current events, but their intractable ideas that it is part of man's nature to fight, to give one example, are very difficult to answer.

[@SocietyBuilders]

Great suggestion! Yes! We’ll soon be getting to peace. But our next sequence of episodes (after depolarization as example of discourse) will focus on social action. Then after that we’ll get to peace. So stay tuned!