Turning Guns into Garden Tools: Living as if Jesus Meant What He Said
Beating swords into plowshares today means daring to turn what harms into what heals—and letting our own hearts be remade, too.
Wade Fransson
Wade Fransson, a former Christian minister with experience across Europe, South Africa, and the U.S., observed Jewish Sabbaths from a Christian perspective, gaining insights into progressive revelation. Visiting the Baha’i World Center in 1981, he embraced the Baha’i Faith in 2007 with his wife Angela, later founding a publishing company and engaging in Baha’i community initiatives, including The Royal Falcon Foundation and the Created in the Image of God podcast.
200 posts
From Frozen to Fluid: Softening Fear, Soul—and Society
(with Michael Stone, Part 2)
From Frozen to Fluid: Softening Fear, Soul—and Society
Heedlessness—Patterns Old and New
The New Call: Religious Unity and the Next Chapter for Humanity
Awkward Awakening: Embracing the Cosmic Next Step
Essential Unity - Moving Forward: What I Learned from Dr. Reynaldo Pareja
The Glory of God Unveiled—Bahá’u’lláh and the Blueprint for a Planetary Civilization
Thanksgiving, Politics, and the Price—and Promise—of Telling the Truth: 5 Lessons from Daniel Gray’s Story
Wholeness, Not Fragmentation: Why Only Spirit Can Unite
From Story to Solidarity: How Telling the Truth Sets Us Free—Locally and Globally
Freedom for Sale: Five Takeaways on Truth, Power, and Spiritual Agency
The Gate at Dawn—The Báb and the Blueprint of Renewal
The Rise of False Gods: How Ideologies Hijack Spiritual Energy
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Israel, the Jewish Question, and the Longing for Home
Divergent Hearts, Converging Mystery: A Second Conversation with Addison Hart
Faith Beyond Dogma: Four Takeaways from My Dialogue with Addison Hart (Part 1 of 2)
Schism, Drift, and the Long Winter of Islam
Principles without Compass: When Ideals Become Ideologies
Never Again, Never Forget
The Renewal Code
A New Dawn at the Edge of Night—Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the End of the Dark Ages
A Vision Accepted, A Unity Eluded: How the World Embraced Baha’i Social Teachings—But Not Their Source
Exiles, Not Chaplains: The Christ-Shaped Life Beyond Politics and Purity
No Kings Part 9
Let There Be Light
No Kings Part 7
Why I Do This
From Summer to Winter—Drift, Division, and the Lessons of Christendom
No Kings Part 6
Lightness, Play, and the Big Relief: Why Grace Demands We Laugh at Ourselves
No Kings Part 5
Samuel’s Warning, the Rise of the King, and America’s Expanding Thrones
