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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

Corporation & Community

1984

Badi Foster relates the notion of corporation to community. He reviews the creation and development of corporations in American life, saying that the corporation has come to be an entity with many of the rights and privileges of human beings. Warns that as Bahá’ís we need to cut Bahá’í jargon out of our discourse with non-Bahá’ís. “Have you ever talked to some one about some thing when they have a cinder in their eye?” That cinder is the jargon that needs to be removed so we can have a meaningful dialogue. The task of Bahá’ís is to take the Teachings and apply them to real world concrete situations.  People, education and community are three entities that need to be harmonized. The challenge to educators is to come up with theoretical models and frameworks and describe them in lay terms but understand that they are connected to some larger notion…of God, if you will. If in fact you can connect your spiritual life with your intellectual life you’ll have a process and a capacity to make a contribution and to confront the important issues of American life.