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Abstract: List of online essays and articles by Dr. John Hatcher. Notes: |
List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org
2021
- The Universal Principle of Gradual Growth
Sep 19, 2021
- The Spiritual Metaphors of the Prism, the Mirror, and the Sun
Sep 17, 2021
- The Baha’i Concept of the Covenant
Sep 14, 2021
- The Messengers of God as Intermediaries
Sep 11, 2021
- How Spiritual Knowledge Can Lead to Real-World Action
Jun 24, 2021
- Abortion, the Right to Life, and a Woman’s Right to Choose
Jun 20, 2021
- Real Knowledge Requires Free Will
Jun 17, 2021
- Religion and its Renewal: The Double-Edged Sword
Jun 13, 2021
- Humanity’s Need for Collective Spiritual Education
Jun 11, 2021
- Approaching the Creator: How to Love an Unknowable Beloved
Jun 6, 2021
- The Relationship Between the Soul and the Body
May 11, 2021
- Are the Prophets the Mirrors of the Creator?
May 7, 2021
- What Happens When a Prophet Passes Away?
Apr 29, 2021
- Traversing the Valleys of Love
Apr 26, 2021
- A Mystical Look at the Stages of Love
Apr 21, 2021
- Falling in Love With the Creator
Apr 17, 2021
- Why Bring Children Into this World?
Apr 16, 2021
- Unveiling 2 Critical Mysteries: Son of God, Seal of the Prophets
Apr 15, 2021
- Why Were We Created?
Apr 14, 2021
- A Baha’i Concept of God
Apr 7, 2021
- How the Prophets Teach Us to Love
Apr 4, 2021
- Love and the Divine Physician
Mar 31, 2021
- The Spiritual Case for Avoiding Cyclical Relationships
Mar 28, 2021
- Love: An Organic Process, Not an Event
Mar 25, 2021
- How the Creator Teaches Us to Love – Indirectly
Mar 22, 2021
- To Every People Was Sent a Messenger
Feb 9, 2021
- Why the Creator Creates
Feb 1, 2021
- Ontology and the Prophets: Three Stages of Love
Jan 31, 2021
- Love as a Process, not an Event
Jan 27, 2021
- Is Romantic Love an Illusion?
Jan 19, 2021
- Authentic Love Versus Social Norms
Jan 15, 2021
- The Origins of the Myth of Romantic Love
Jan 4, 2021
- A Modern Affliction: The Neurotic Concept of Love
Dec 27, 2020
- The Mystical Huri of Love
Dec 21, 2020
- If We're Spiritual Beings, Why Do We Live in a Physical World?
Dec 15, 2020
- The Great Debate: Logic Versus Faith. Both Win.
Oct 28, 2020
- Why Do Religions Have Laws?
Jun 18, 2019
- Do We Have the Right to Seek Vengeance?
Jun 13, 2019
- Justice, Compassion and Forgiveness in Baha’i Law
Jun 9, 2019
- Baha’i Behavior: No Mere Code of Laws
Jun 2, 2019
- Seeing the Unseen Reality
May 11, 2019
- Leading a Refined Life—Globally
May 3, 2019
- Refinement, Cleanliness and Spirituality
Apr 24, 2019
- Why Do Spiritual Beings Need a Physical World?
Apr 18, 2019
- Physical Reality Has Always Existed
Apr 12, 2019
- Is Our Universe Expanding? A Baha’i Look at Einstein’s Theory
Feb 6, 2019
- Why Nature and the Human Spirit Abhor a Vacuum
Jan 25, 2019
- The Higgs Boson, or Can You Believe What You Cannot See?
Jan 16, 2019
- How Big was that Bang?
Jan 5, 2019
- Why Are Humans Beings So Complex?
Dec 28, 2018
- Does the Smallest Thing in the World Hold a Secret to Our Universe?
Dec 17, 2018
- Embracing Light and Becoming a Virtuous Person
Dec 12, 2018
- Making Virtues Your Personal Development Goals
Dec 9, 2018
- An Infinity of Heavens
Apr 30, 2018
- Bewildered Spirits: the Self-Imposed State of Hell
Apr 28, 2018
- Encountering a Loving, Forgiving God
Apr 26, 2018
- What Do Negative Near-Death Experiences Mean?
Apr 24, 2018
- The Peace and Joy of Our Passing
Apr 22, 2018
- The Ineffable Nature of Dying
Apr 21, 2018
- Panoramic Review: Does Your Life Pass in Front of You?
Apr 15, 2018
- Our Awareness of Other Souls after Death
Apr 13, 2018
- When We Die: the Dissociation of Soul and Body
Apr 12, 2018
- Life After Life: The Passage to the Next World
Apr 10, 2018
- Exploring the Near-Death Experience
Apr 8, 2018
- What do Near-Death Experiences Really Tell Us?
Apr 7, 2018
- The Eternal Consequences of Our Physical Experience
Apr 5, 2018
- Detaching from the Physical Reality
Mar 31, 2018
- Why Is Our Physical Experience Necessary?
Mar 28, 2018
- Tests, Trials and Divine Intervention
Mar 27, 2018
- Does God Cause the Suffering of the Innocent?
Mar 25, 2018
- The Non-Existence of Evil
Mar 23, 2018
- The Metaphorical Lessons in Negative Experience
Mar 22, 2018
- Building a Planetary Spiritual Community
Mar 19, 2018
- Spiritual Law as Metaphor
Mar 17, 2018
- Understanding the Prophets—with a Pure Heart
Mar 16, 2018
- How to Read the Baha’i Writings—Symbolically
Mar 15, 2018
- The Deep Metaphorical Meanings of a Spiritual Journey
Mar 13, 2018
- Beyond the Literal: Why God Wants Us to Think
Mar 8, 2018
- A Prophet of God—or God Himself?
Feb 28, 2018
- The Bread, the Wine, and the Meaning of the Metaphor
Feb 27, 2018
- Metaphors in the Teaching Technique of the Prophets
Feb 25, 2018
- Instilling Spirituality and Self-Discipline in Children
Feb 23, 2018
- The Spiritual Attribute of Cleanliness
Feb 20, 2018
- Nobility, Metaphor and Spiritual Education
Feb 19, 2018
- When Did You Begin to Think Abstractly?
Feb 16, 2018
- The Important Spiritual Role of Abstract Thought
Feb 15, 2018
- The Metaphorical Nature of Physical Reality
Feb 11, 2018
- Prenatal Exercises for Our Second Birth
Feb 10, 2018
- How Justice and Grace Coexist
Jan 3, 2018
- Natural Systems of Reward and Punishment
Jan 2, 2018
- Reward and Punishment: The Twin Pillars of Justice
Jan 1, 2018
- The Internal Mechanism of Justice
Dec 30, 2017
- How the Prophets Educate and Inspire Humanity
Dec 18, 2017
- The Prophet as Primary Educator
Dec 16, 2017
- Imitation—the Antithesis of Justice
Dec 12, 2017
- Autonomy and Will: Requisites for a Spiritual Education
Dec 7, 2017
- Was Adam a Prophet?
Nov 7, 2017
- One Continuous Spiritual Revelation from God
Oct 29, 2017
- Heaven and Hell: Internal Conditions, not Places
Oct 15, 2017
- Innocence, Satan and Sin: A Baha’i Response to Milton
Oct 2, 2017
- The Spiritual Relationship of Knowledge, Belief and Action
Sep 30, 2017
- A Baha’i Response to Boethius
Sep 22, 2017
- A Baha’i Response to the Biblical Story of Job
Sep 20, 2017
- A Baha’i Response to Plato
Sep 19, 2017
- Do You Believe in Science or Religion—or Both?
Sep 18, 2017
- Paradise Lost and the Sacrifice of God’s Son
Aug 26, 2017
- Awaiting Execution, A Philosopher Contemplates God
Aug 25, 2017
- The Deep Meaning of the Story of Job
Aug 24, 2017
- The Physical World: A Divinely-Ordained Teaching Device
Aug 23, 2017
- Plato’s Cave and Progressive Enlightenment
Aug 22, 2017
- Justifying God: Socrates and Plato’s Republic
Aug 21, 2017
- Is There Any Justice in this World?
Aug 20, 2017
- My Search for Metaphysical Justice in a Physical World
Aug 19, 2017
- True Religion: No Blind Acceptance of Dogma
Aug 18, 2017
- So, Am I Ready for Death?
Jul 24, 2017
- How Do Baha’is Deal with Death?
Jul 23, 2017
- Baha’u’llah Grieves for His Young Son
Jul 22, 2017
- If God, then Justice
Jul 20, 2017
- The Grief of Parents
Jul 19, 2017
- The Inescapable Logic of Justice
Jul 18, 2017
- The Spiritual Significance of Thermodynamics
Jul 17, 2017
- The Spirit Ascends as the Body Declines
May 18, 2017
- Age and Wisdom: Peeling Away the Ephemeral Things
May 16, 2017
- Does Consciousness Exist in the Brain or the Soul?
May 15, 2017
- Graphing Life to Discover the Lessons of Aging
May 14, 2017
- What We Can Learn about Death from the Poets
May 12, 2017
- Death, Detachment, and Contempt for the Aging
May 11, 2017
- The Divine Art of Aging: the Creator’s Neatest Training Technique
May 9, 2017
- What All Those Animal Videos Say About Us
Apr 5, 2017
- Why Do We Die?
Mar 29, 2017
- Comprehending Death by Thinking about its Creator
Mar 27, 2017
- The Lost Art of Dying without Despair
Mar 26, 2017
- This World: Only the Shadow of the Next World
Mar 25, 2017
- Art and Suicide: Poets, Depression, and the Desire to Die
Mar 23, 2017
- The Seers, the Visionaries Among Us, the Artists
Mar 21, 2017
- The Death of Innocence
Mar 16, 2017
- Dealing with My Father’s Death—and a Kitten
Mar 15, 2017
- My Residual Fear about Death
Jan 10, 2017
- The Art of Living and the Art of Dying
Jan 8, 2017
- Walking a Spiritual Path in Retirement
Jan 1, 2017
- Finding a Guide for your Path
Dec 29, 2016
- Tragic Flaws and the Art of Living Dangerously
Dec 20, 2016
- Joining a Baha’i Community—Joyfully
Oct 6, 2016
- Committing to the Baha’i Life
Oct 5, 2016
- How Does the Baha’i Faith Spread?
Oct 4, 2016
- Becoming a Baha’i, and un-Becoming a Methodist
Oct 3, 2016
- Be as Flames of Love in the World
Oct 2, 2016
- The Great Debate: Logic versus Faith. Both Win.
Oct 1, 2016
- 4 Logical Steps toward a Spiritual Education
Sep 29, 2016
- On the Road Again: Accepting the Baha’i Path as My Own
Sep 25, 2016
- Accepting Muhammad as a Prophet of God
Sep 10, 2016
- A Smart and Logical God?
Sep 9, 2016
- Let Deeds Be Thy Adorning
Sep 8, 2016
- The 3 Realities of Every Revelation
Sep 7, 2016
- Thieves in the Night: Comprehending the Trinity
Sep 5, 2016
- Meeting the Holy Manifestations of God
Sep 4, 2016
- Finding the Balance between Science and the Spirit
Sep 3, 2016
- Establishing the Machinery of World Unity
Sep 2, 2016
- Jumping off the Train of Mainstream Thinking
Sep 1, 2016
- Awakening to an Alternative Dream
Aug 31, 2016
- The Heroic Mystery of Self-Sacrifice
May 14, 2016
- Courage, Heroism and War: What’s Worth Dying For?
May 12, 2016
- Who Wants to Go Home Again?
May 5, 2016
- The Problem of Leaving Paradise
May 2, 2016
- How Childhood Prepares Us for Death
Apr 29, 2016
- 5 Things We Know About When Individual Life Begins
Mar 31, 2016
- Alzheimer’s, Dementia and the Soul
Mar 28, 2016
- We Are Essentially Spiritual Beings
Mar 25, 2016
- Mind or Soul: What Makes us Truly Human?
Mar 24, 2016
- Abortion, the Right to Life, and a Woman’s Right to Choose
Mar 20, 2016
- Fear, Human Nature and the Elephant of Death
Mar 18, 2016
- What Birth Can Tell Us about Death
Mar 10, 2016
- Creating Your Inner Life’s Spiritual Aspirations
Mar 4, 2016
- Life’s Big Milestones: Birth and Death
Mar 3, 2016
- Shedding Death’s Bear Suit
Jan 27, 2016
- We’re All Gonna Die!
Jan 25, 2016
- As We Try to Comprehend Death: Why Baha’i?
Jan 23, 2016
- The Quest of Our Lifelong Safari
Jan 22, 2016
- Death: The Elephant in Our Living Rooms
Jan 21, 2016
- Death: Absolutely Imaginary
Dec 28, 2015
- I’m Not Ready to Leave this Life
Dec 25, 2015
- Reaching My Expiration Date
Dec 23, 2015
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