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teaching project notes
2007-11-10 17:50:00 people at the Ottawa Baha’i Centre, sharing stories about teaching the Baha’i Faith during the Varqa Teaching Project . One had an hour-and-a-half-long conversation with an eighty-year-old woman who, while seeming hostile at first, warmed up immediately once she realized what the Baha’is were there to discuss—they continued on to share a good part of ... More About: Notes
the life of baha?u'llah
2007-11-07 15:22:00 wow. the Baha’i International Community just launched a new website that serves as a pictorial history of the life of Bahá’u'lláh. you should see it, especially if you’re planning to go on pilgrimage soon. it’s been just about a year since my family returned from our pilgrimage to the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel?in ... More About: Life
quiet day with god?s creation
2007-10-28 22:36:00 after a morning devotional and brunch in Blackburn with some of our newfound friends (newfound after this summer’s outreach projects, that is), I called up my Dad to get a ride home to Cumberland village this afternoon, where Mom’s been cooking jars of preserves, pies and even a turkey! it’s nice to go home. ... More About: Creation , Quiet
united nations day
2007-10-24 18:26:00 On October 24th, 1945, the Charter of the Unit ed Nations entered into effect after being signed in San Francisco during the summer of 1945, creating the international organization we know today. The Baha’i International Community has been accredited as an international nongovernmental organization at the UN since 1948, and was granted special consultative status ... More About: S Day
iran?s baha?i plan: persecute the living, desecrate the dead
2007-10-23 05:57:00 This is a lamentably late post?along with all the others I’ve posted recently?but this one makes me so angry I couldn’t bear not to share it. Not content with the relentless (yet increasingly secretive) persecution of living Baha’is, Iran ian authorities are sinking to desecrating the graves of those Baha’is who have passed away. ... More About: Living , Dead , Plan , Crate
ahmadinejad: ?baha?i? is a bad word
2007-10-23 05:06:00 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ’s visit to America was newsworthy enough to make the front page of local, national and international news everywhere. You may have heard about his remarks to the American National Press Corps?in which he completely ignored a question posed to him about Iran’s Baha’is? or his talk at Columbia University and ... More About: Word
ooohhhhhhhh youtube
2007-10-23 04:28:00 …so that’s why youtube was down yesterday. they upgraded! for those of you who are into it, check out the new look youtube (and big boss google) brought out of beta. pretty sweet… along the way, check out this short NBC TV segment on “Faith in America” that offers a quick peek ... More About: Youtube
blog action day: ecology and moderation
2007-10-16 02:42:00 There’s nothing like catching a cold to make you think about moderation. I was feeling great up til about Friday, when I started feeling a little more tired and strung out than usual. Saturday was a long and exhausting day, and Sunday I woke up with this awful taste in my mouth, a ... More About: Ecology , Action , Blog
video: international environment forum
2007-10-15 01:43:00 As blogged here earlier, the 11th Conference of the International Envi ronment Forum took place in Ottawa this weekend, and many of my friends within the Baha’i community showed up there. I’ll probably blog a little more about it later, but for now, you might want to check out the conference yourself: presentations and notes ... More About: Video
victoriaville in high-res satellite photos
2007-10-14 07:31:00 yay! Google Maps (and Google Earth) finally added high-res satellite photos of my favourite place in the world: Victoriaville. now you can see the house where I lived, the Victoriaville Loblaws store where I worked, the SADC Arthabaska-Érable (where I also worked), the Tim Horton’s where I stopped after getting lost on my first ... More About: Photos , Satellite , High , Ville
back from a sweet weekend
2007-10-09 05:43:00 random update time. I peaced out for the Thanksgiving weekend (yup, Canadian Thanksgiving) and went to Victoriaville to visit Craig and Genevičve, two terribly good friends of mine from back when I went on a year of service there in 2002. it was great to get back together with them. we hung ... More About: Sweet , Weekend , Back
to sacrifice one?s life
2007-10-03 19:14:00 Man is he who forgets his own interests for the sake of others. His own comfort he forfeits for the well-being of all. Nay, rather, his own life must he be willing to forfeit for the life of mankind. Such a man is the honor of the world of humanity. Such a man is the ... More About: Life , Sacrifice
change in culture
2007-10-01 06:52:00 In May 2006, the Universal House of Justice wrote to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá?ís of Canada regarding the goals and plans of the Canadian Baha?i community. The latter had set some ambitious goals for the growth and development of the community, promising to firmly establish intensive programs of growth in no less than ... More About: Culture , Change , Chang , Chan
dr. ali-muhammad varqá
2007-09-24 02:30:00 It’s with great sadness that the Baha’i world learned today of the passing of Dr. ‘Ali-Muhammad Varqá, the last living member of the Hands of the Cause of God, those selfless, sanctified souls appointed as servants and guides to the worldwide Baha’i Community, whose work, whose only passion was to protect and proclaim the Baha’i ...
heyvoon
2007-09-23 09:58:00 what began as an Ottawa in-joke is growing into an international meme thanks to the power of the Internet. imagine my surprise at the uproar caused by an innocent photo of me and Hooman posted to flickr following a local celebration of the ninth day of Ridván (the same one where Eric Farr performed). ...
the baha?i encyclopedia
2007-09-17 06:31:00 If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to these past few weeks, I have four answers for you: work ruhi book 6 planning/teaching children’s classes contributing to bahaikipedia this last item is pretty interesting actually. you should check it out. you probably know of wikipedia, especially if you’ve read any high school or undergraduate research papers lately. ... More About: Encyclopedia
it?s just the beginning
2007-09-07 19:05:00 The 60’s were a turbulent and exciting time in the history of civilization, and no less so in the history of the Baha’i community. A few months ago, the American Baha’i National Centre posted videos of the 1968 Baha’i National Youth Conference, perhaps for the benefit of those of us who were merely glimmers ...
random note
2007-09-01 02:27:00 hey! just a random note to say that I’m still alive, just working like crazy and juggling several different priorities?two children’s classes and a study circle doing Book 6 of the Ruhi curriculum come to mind. It’s labor dabor day weekend in North America; tomorrow, Julie, my mom and I will be at the ... More About: Random , Note
video: egypt tourism ad
2007-08-26 05:43:00 Could this be any more amazing? Well, if you consider that this video wasn’t even made by Baha’is… kudos to the Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights for this piece of genius. More About: Video , Egypt , Tourism
we got green religion
2007-08-26 05:31:00 The CanWest News Service published a story on the “greening” of religion which briefly mentioned the Baha’i Faith, and that got me thinking a bit about the Baha’i take on environmental stewardship. The Baha’i Writings contain lots of insight about ecological principles and environmental stewardship. I prepared a workshop about ecology for the ... More About: Religion , Green
video: one universal cause
2007-08-17 23:27:00 Musical awesomeness from Fire and Snow (see original on Youtube). That which the Lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith. (Bahá’u'lláh, Summons of the Lord of Hosts, p. 91) More About: Video , Universal , Univers
id cards: egypt tightens noose on baha?is
2007-08-13 07:07:00 Baha’i blog Baha’i Faith in Egypt reminds us that time is swiftly running out for the Baha’is of Egypt: the new computerized Egyptian identification cards?which allow access to all forms of official government transactions, and which, coincidentally, are impossible for Baha’is to obtain?will soon be mandatory for all Egyptian citizens; inability to produce such an ... More About: Cards , Noose , ID Card
you want intense? i?ll give you intense
2007-08-09 23:34:00 life is intense right now. For the past week I’ve been leaving home at 8 AM and getting in between 10 PM and midnight every night; my cat is super angry at me and has been staging regular protests. I guess it started with the reflection meeting; things have been super goofy since ... More About: Give
photo albums overhauled
2007-08-05 06:08:00 aha! after a while of messing around and banging my head against a wall of PHP, I’ve given my photos page a much-needed overhaul. now, instead of linking you directly to flickr, photos will appear directly within the comfortable doberman pizza interface you’re used to. to celebrate, I’ve posted photos from the recent reflection ... More About: Photo , Albums
tallisman in nwt: progressive revelation rap
2007-08-03 19:01:00 Do you remember Canadian Baha’i hip-hop artist Tallis Newkirk, aka Tallisman, of Nelstar and Plains of Fascination fame? The one who helped Nelly Furtado get her first experience at professional studio recording when she was 17 years old? Yeah, that one. After living for a while in Regina, Saskatchewan, he’s moved to ... More About: Progressive , Revelation
iran to baha?is: convert or stay out of our schools
2007-08-02 06:26:00 Once again, Iran ’s campaign of persecution towards its Baha’i minority finds its way into the halls of academe; one more year in a row, prospective Baha’i students have been barred from applying for higher education. No, there are no armed guards keeping them from the examination halls; just a row of boxes on paper. ... More About: Schools , Convert , Stay , Vert
reflection meetings are better than ice cream
2007-07-30 13:22:00 Ottawa’s Baha’i community opened up the 10th cycle of its intensive program of growth on Friday night with loud whoops and hollers, African drums, singing, laughing and dancing. In fact, the assembled crowd seemed so joyous that they even interrupted the MC’s opening jokes with outbursts of applause. So, as a word to ... More About: Ice Cream , Reflection , Meetings , Cream
an oracle and the internet*
2007-07-28 17:57:00 here’s a neat little video put together by Matthew Levine of Anthem for the World fame?it’s based on the statement made by Shoghi Effendi in the World Order of Bahá’u'lláh letters that many now construe as foreseeing the creation of the Intern et . Check it out (nice music, too!): A mechanism of world inter-communication will be ... More About: Oracle , The Internet
holla back seattle: baha?i hip-hop
2007-07-24 19:30:00 It wasn’t until I read about them on the one and only Baha’i Blog and actually had a chance to hear some of their music that I started to light up: Common Market is serious business. Seriously challenging and seriously honest vocals?many inspired by the teachings of the Baha’i Faith?delivered by Ra Scion, along ... More About: Seattle , Back
muslim network for baha?i rights featured on bbc persian
More articles from this author:2007-07-23 15:17:00 As noted on Barney Leith’s blog Barnabas Quotidianus?and passed along by countless email groups so far?the fledgling Muslim Network for Baha?i Rights has been featured on BBC Persian (Farsi; check out the English translation). This is well-deserved good news for this collection of brave souls who are selflessly striving to defend the interests of ... More About: Featured , Feat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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