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reflection meeting photos
2008-05-05 07:47:00 hey hey hey hey have some photos! I’ve posted the photos from the ottawa Baha’i community’s recent reflection meeting. In response to comments, I tried to take a lot more face shots this time instead of back-of-head shots and crowd shots. hopefully this helps convey the active, participatory nature of reflection meetings. ... More About: Photos
spring cleaning the baha?i centre
2008-04-26 23:24:00 It’s a warm, sunny Saturday in Ottawa. Saturday has become a de facto Service Day; I tend to spend most of my time here in the Baha’i Centre on Saturdays, while Sunday is quickly becoming a family-time day (for the past few weekends, anyway). This morning, our children’s class did a little spring ... More About: Cleaning , Spring
blitherblather
2008-04-19 23:14:00 today’s a fine sunny day and I’m inside :O oh well, it’s for a good cause anyway?looking after the Baha’i Centre while a children’s class is at the playground down the street, in case parents come early looking for their kids. spring has come to Ottawa like a mad berserker, pumping the temperature up ...
in quest of a study circle
2008-04-01 04:17:00 the work of a regional institute coordinator is pretty hard… More About: Study , Quest , Circle
these great oppressions / o son of man
2008-03-16 19:31:00 Here’s a really cool version of everybody’s favourite musical fireside song, These Great Oppressions?performed by Canadian Baha’i musician Dean Kalyan. These great oppressions That have befallen the world Are preparing it for the advent Of the Most Great Justice These fruitless strifes These ruinous wars Shall pass away And the Most Great Peace shall come And, as an added bonus, here’s JB Eckl and ...
breaking the fast
2008-03-16 01:03:00 Tonight at the Ottawa Baha’i Centre, there’s a community potluck organized by the east-end Baha’is (from “Sector 1″ as it’s habitually called). The sun isn’t down yet and already the tantalizing smell of food wafts through the air?oven-baked pasta, casseroles, persian rice, curries and meat. Fast ing heightens the senses, especially when it relates ... More About: Breaking
backbiting music video
2008-03-12 18:16:00 Polynesian music group Mana wins the awesomeness award of the month with their new music video pulled straight from the pages of Ruhi Book 1 and the writings of Bahá’u'lláh: That seeker should also regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and ... More About: Video , Music , Music Video
la la la
2008-03-12 18:10:00 hey - still fasting. extremely busy at work right now, and pretty fatigued; as such I haven’t had much energy to put into creative endeavours (videos, etc) like I usually do. been reading Baha’i Views a lot, and ooh’ing and ahh’ing at all the marvelous content popping up on it. also discovered a wonderful blog ...
baha?i fasting season and spiritual life
2008-03-05 05:12:00 the Baha’i month of fasting began on Sunday; from March 2nd to March 20th inclusive, Baha’is refrain from eating or drinking from sunup to sundown. This physical Fast is symbolic of a spiritual Fast?just as fasting helps cleanse our bodies from physical impurities, the Baha’i Fast is a time to cleanse the spirit of ... More About: Life , Spiritual , Season , Fasting
february update
2008-02-16 22:53:00 well it’s certainly been a while since the last update, hasn’t it? I blame the season. I love winter, but for some reason, every time it comes around, I just slow down like nobody’s business. sad. I guess it’s more of the winter blahs (I keep blogging about them every year… ... More About: Update , February
pruned!
2008-01-28 05:32:00 a few weeks back, we had a very intense windstorm which not only pruned branches off trees (leaving them strewn along the roads) but also pruned the sign off our beloved Baha’i centre :( thankfully, nobody was hurt when it fell - it fell over into one of the parking spots, and no one was ...
martin luther king, jr
2008-01-21 17:21:00 Today is Martin Luther King Day, an American national holiday that celebrates the birthday?and the life and times?of Martin Luther King Jr., a Christian minister who championed the Civil Rights movement in America in the 1960s.
le pouvoir de la parole
2008-01-11 05:08:00 [English below the first video.] Voilŕ une perle rare! Il s’agit d’un film documentaire archi passionnant qui montre le premier essai d’un projet collectif d’enseignement centré sur les pré-jeunes?c’est ŕ dire les jeunes ayant de 11 ŕ 14 ans?dans un groupement prčs de Paris, en France. Passionnant parce qu’il s’agit de l’apprentissage en ... More About: Parole
welcome to 2008
2008-01-01 21:31:00 the Gregorian calendar year came and went without much of a fuss this year?much like last year, when I was holed up in Winnipeg watching movies, I spent the fateful moment with friends (Tassnim, Basim and Rhetta) watching DVDs and eating pie and ice cream. After a short visit with brother Gabriel and his family to ... More About: 2008
christmas
2007-12-27 23:53:00 one of the most often-asked questions I hear around this time of year is: do Baha’is celebrate Christmas ? I wrote a little something about that last year and thought I’d share it with you again.
more holiday
2007-12-27 07:16:00 merry christmas to those of you who celebrate it! to all the muslims in reading range, happy Eid! oh, and happy Hanukkah too, but that’s a little late. and happy kwanzaa too I guess. and shab yalda to all the persians. and happy solstice/midwinter/etc to… well, to whoever celebrates it. i’ve been ... More About: Holiday
sunday snow day
2007-12-17 03:53:00 huge snowstorm swept through the Ottawa area today, coating the landscape with white fluffy snow. the roads got pretty fouled up, so most people (myself included) stayed inside to do laundry, play with the cat, read, and blog. it was fun. it brought back memories of the snowstorm a few years back in ... More About: Sunday , Snow , Snow Day
maxwell international school: forced to close, or ready for rebirth?
2007-12-16 21:01:00 most of you will have already heard the news about the planned closure of the Bahá’í-inspired Maxwell International School , which was quick to spread when it broke back in mid-November. you may not have heard, though, of the recent grassroots efforts by students, parents and local community members to gather enough support to allow ... More About: Forced , Close
human rights
2007-12-13 07:07:00 I missed out on posting something on the United Nations Human Rights Day (Dec. 10th), but figured I’d give at least a peep to show that a) I’m not dead and b) I care about human rights issues. I have at least one other human rights post in draft, but it’s not done yet ... More About: Human Rights
malaysia rocks
2007-12-13 05:57:00 I want to give big shout-outs and much love to everyone from Mala ysia who reads this blog. You know who you are. I was chatting with a friend over IM and she told me she had met someone from Malays ia who recognized her via my blog. Apparently, all of Malaysia reads my blog ... More About: Rocks
anna?s presentation: a systematic way of teaching
2007-12-07 16:17:00 As I’ve already blogged here before, ?Anna ?s presentation? is a nickname referring to several sections of Book 6 of the Ruhi curriculum, ?Teaching the Cause?, in which participants explore how to effectively share with receptive souls a general overview (or presentation) of the Baha?i Faith that is detailed enough to be considered complete. When people talk ... More About: Presentation , Resent
yertle the turtle
2007-12-03 04:59:00 I remember blogging way back about this neat initiative spearheaded by a couple of Baha’is from New York City called the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC). It’s a theatre company that goes far beyond your average elementary school plays and instead promotes theatre as an active way of learning and building character qualities. Ottawa now has ... More About: Turtle
the ascension of ?abdu?l-baha
2007-11-29 22:50:00 A special announcement, issued in the morning, by the family of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the Bahá’ís of Haifa, gave the public the news of His passing and of the funeral arrangements for the following day. However, [e]arly on Monday morning . . . the news of this sudden calamity had spread over the city, causing an ... More About: Ascension
un?s third committee expresses ?very serious concern? at human rights in ir
2007-11-25 03:53:00 After a “nail-bitingly tense” vote on a no-action motion (NAM) tabled by Iran?which failed by 1 vote?the UN’s Third Committee finally approved a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Iran. Thanks to Barney for the heads up and for some insightful commentary on the issue. NEW YORK?A committee of the United Nations General Assembly ... More About: Human , Rights , Human Rights
spiritual traditions: an introduction to the baha?i faith
2007-11-12 22:27:00 Robert Henderson is a lifelong Baha’i and member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha?is of the United States. He and his wife, Paula, recently gave an eloquent and beautiful interview for a programme on a public access cable show in Chicago; there’s a short clip on YouTube. This brief excerpt from ... More About: Faith , Traditions , Introduction
awakening: the dawn of a new era
2007-11-12 16:20:00 Here’s wishing all the fans and readers of doberman pizza a happy celebration of the Birth of Bahá’u'lláh. 190 years ago, a new day dawned and a new sun rose from the horizon of Persia to illuminate the whole world. Last night’s celebration in Ottawa was pretty epic?over 700 people attended! Here’s ... More About: Dawn , Awake , Awakening
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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