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Century of the Light? ?or Self?
2008-03-07 14:55:00 Is this the Century of Light , or of the self? Here’s what the Universal House of Justice said a few years ago in the foreword to the Century of Light: The conclusion of the twentieth century provides Bahá?ís with a unique vantage point. During the past hundred years our world underwent changes far more profound than any ... More About: Movies
(Another) Quick Blog Update
2008-03-06 03:48:00 Bokay, time for a quick update on the blog (again). As you may have noticed things look familiar but at the same time, slightly different. That’s because I’ve changed the look of the blog and updated the code that runs it. Let there be Lightbox! Images now appear differently. To see what I mean, click the image ... More About: Blog , Update , Quick
Rainn Wilson Audition Tapes
2008-03-01 12:48:00 Lets kick off the weekend with these hilarious Rainn Wilson audition “out-takes”… Juno - for the role of Juno MacGuff: Juno - for the role of Paulie Bleeker: Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell & The Butterfly) - for the role of Jean-Dominique Bauby: I’m Not There - for the role of Bob Dylan: More About: Humor , Tapes , Audition
Correlation of Religiosity & Wealth: Pew Study
2008-03-01 00:31:00 This Pew report is getting a lot of people’s attention. It includes some surprising data. The most important is that people are not staying in the religion that they were brought up in. Also, there is an alarming drop in the number of Catholics. As usual, the Baha’i Faith’s miniscule numbers didn’t even place ... More About: Internet , Wealth , Study
No Goats Harmed in Making of the Baha?i Faith
2008-02-24 04:49:00 Haven’t seen Juno yet, but now I guess I have to More About: Humor , Faith , Goats
Pictures of Abdu?l-Baha
2008-02-21 01:44:00 I wish I knew Abdu’l-Baha better. Since He lived before I did, the only way I can attempt to know the man, the person, the Center of the Covenant, the Master, the Servant of God (that’s what Abdu’l-Baha means in Arabic) is through the writings He left behind… and maybe through His pictures. Thanks to the internet, ... More About: Pictures
Transparent is as Transparent Does
2008-02-14 14:25:00 I’m not sure if any Baha’is who live in Alaska read this humble little blog. I only ask because if there are any fellow Baha’is from there, they probably already know the news that I’m about to share with you. The great State of Alaska has recently decided to become so transparent that they have put ... More About: Fund , Transparent
World On Fire by Sarah McLachlan
2008-02-07 22:19:00 After watching this I couldn’t help but think of all the money that was spent to build the Baha’i Arc project on Mt. Carmel. Imagine if instead of $250,000,000.00 (that’s $250 Million US) we had instead spent $2.5 Million and then used the rest to “tap into the water” and help people in dire need. Does the ... More About: World , Fire , Sarah , Fund
You Can?t Pick & Choose? or Can You?
2008-02-03 21:31:00 In the comment discussion that took place for the previous post: Pre-Approved Individual Investigation of Truth an interesting concept was touched on. Because it is worthy of further discussion, I wanted to spend some more time on it. Since I read a very good treatment of it by another Baha’i, I’d thought I’d simply share their ... More About: Pick , Ruhi , Choose
It?s a Miracle!
2008-02-03 03:26:00 cartoon credit: Sinfest.net “But in the day of the Manifestation the people with insight see that all the conditions of the Manifestation are miracles, for They are superior to all others, and this alone is an absolute miracle. Recollect that Christ, solitary and alone, without a helper or protector, without armies and legions, and under the ... More About: Humor , Miracle
Three Baha?is Jailed in Iran
2008-02-01 12:19:00 In May 2006 a group of more than 50 Baha’is were arrested in Shiraz. Most of them were released almost immediately with the last remaining individuals freed temporarily pending their court hearing. The majority have gotten a suspended sentence but three Baha’is: Haleh Rouhi Jahromi (29), Sasan Taqva (33), & Raha Sabet Sarvestani (32) have ... More About: Iran
Confirmation: Maxwell International To Close
2008-01-28 16:43:00 About three months ago I was the first to break the sad story that the Maxwell Baha’i school in Canada would be closing after 20 years of operation. Almost immediately, a group of students, faculty, alumni, student families and well-wishers joined together to come up with ideas to save the school. They wrote a proposal ... More About: International , Close , Fund , Confirmation
LA Class Newsletter [#33]
2008-01-28 06:12:00 SKIP TO NEWSLETTER My Notes: This newsletter is the two year anniversary of the LA Class es! I just had my third birthday, so this is mighty apropos. Within this newsletter it is obvious that there was now clear friction between the status quo and new ideas being thrown around. In other notes this was implicit if you ... More About: Newsletter
?Pre-Approved? Individual Investigation of Truth?
2008-01-20 21:57:00 Neysan Zoelzer-Mehrabkhani, a Baha’i from Germany has created a Baha’i search engine (through Google Co-Op) named Majnún. Regular Google search already does a great job of providing information, Baha’i related or otherwise. So why do we need this service? Well, as Neysan’s site explains, Majnún: Searches approved Baha’i-related websites only… Searches approved Baha’i-related blogs only. Searches approved Baha’i ... More About: Truth , Internet , Investigation , Individual , Ruth
Baha?i Belief Advisory System
2008-01-14 20:14:00 Inspired by Moojan Momen’s recent paper (and the United States Homeland Security), I’ve drawn up an easy to use chart which should help fellow Baha’is and the institutions in identifying and categorizing members of the community. Note that each label is directly taken from Momen’s recently published paper. [takes out laser pointer and slowly removes ... More About: Humor , System , Belief
The Water Cooler in the Sky
2008-01-10 20:19:00 cartoon credit: Sinfest.net More About: Humor , Water Cooler , Water , Cooler
Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha?i Community
2008-01-06 16:49:00 The following is my commentary on a recently published paper titled: “Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha?i Community ” - by the Baha’i theologian, Dr. Moojan Momen. Let me make a crystal clear distinction here: I do not agree with Momen, his assertions nor his conclusions. In fact I strongly disagree with pretty much everything he says ... More About: Theology , Unit
Reflections on 3 Years of Blogging
2007-12-29 08:34:00 I can’t believe it has been 3 years since I started writing. I don’t make it a habit to lapse into navel gazing but since we are at a sort of road marker, perhaps you will be so kind as to overlook this weakness. Yes, really. Its been three whole years (and a fraction more). This ... More About: Reflections , Blogging , Years
LA Class Newsletter [#32]
2007-12-24 20:13:00 SKIP TO NEWSLETTER My Notes: This newsletter is noteworthy not only because it contains a report about a scholarly conference held in England but also because it was later cited as an example of naughty behavior by the NSA of the United States and figured into their decision to ban further publication and dissemination of the LA ... More About: Newsletter , Class
LA Class Newsletter [#31]
2007-12-20 01:52:00 SKIP TO NEWSLETTER My Notes: This newsletter contains a summary of the presentation of Dr. Daniel Jordan on ANISA - a framework for education. Unfortunately, Dr. Jordan’s life was cut short by murder approximately four years from this LA class presentation; which left ANISA without a champion. ANISA sounds very promising and it is most tragic that its ... More About: Newsletter , Class
LA Class Newsletter [#30]
2007-12-15 23:10:00 SKIP TO NEWSLETTER My Notes: I found this newsletter a bit dry and boring. But maybe that’s just me. Hope you enjoy it more than I did. If this is your first newsletter, you might also want to read the introduction to the LA study class, here. On with the 70’s class . . . [START DOCUMENT] [Ed. personal address] ?Land of ... More About: Newsletter , Class
LA Class Newsletter [#29]
2007-12-01 08:38:00 SKIP TO NEWSLETTER My Notes: This LA Class newsletter is interesting because it contains the research of Ms. Loni Bramson-Lerche. A quick search on the internet found this paper she wrote in “Studies in Babi and Baha’i History”, titled: Some Aspects of the Development of the Baha’i Administrative Order in America. According to the preliminary research results presented ... More About: Newsletter
The Million+ Book Project
2007-11-28 18:48:00 The Million Book Project , an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online. You can access them through this portal. ... More About: Internet
Maxwell Baha?i School Closes
2007-11-19 20:47:00 BREAKING NEWS 14 November 2007 Students, Staff, Parents and Supporters of Maxwell International School Dear Friends, Following extensive consultation and after sharing its concerns with the Universal House of Justice, the National Spiritual Assembly has taken the very difficult decision to close the Maxwell International School at the end of the current ... More About: Fund
Two Openings in Universal House of Justice
2007-11-14 23:04:00 Breaking News !! Hartmut Grossmann and Glenford E. Mitchell have relinquished their membership with the approval of the Univers al House of Justice . They have been members of the UHJ since 2003 and 1982 respectively. According to the Constitution of the UHJ (Section V. 2.) there are three ways in which a vacancy can occur: a) Should any member ...
Finding Hidden Purposes in Obedience
2007-11-07 16:27:00 Here is an interesting post made by fellow Baha’i blogger, Neghan, over at Daily Bahai Blog. For some reason he decided to erase his writing after publishing it on the web. Similar to the previous occasion where a fellow blogger decided to self-censor themselves, I’ve plucked the content from Google Cache and present it here ... More About: Internet , Hidden , Ruhi , Obedience
Archives Building Undergoing Restoration
2007-10-18 02:37:00 More than two years ago, while discussing Baha’i buildings inside Talisman9 (the oldest online Baha’i discussion group), one person wrote: Marble construction has the effect of minimising running costs at the price of a higher capital investment. Perhaps there are achitects among us who can give us an amortisation estimate:considering that the World Centre is intended to ... More About: Building , Archives , Restoration , Chives , Hives
Difference Between Proselytizing And Teaching
2007-10-12 16:44:00 The above is a 25 minute video of a PBS series called “I Believe” which covers different religions. The host is Dennis Wholey who is interviewing Randolph Dobbs, a Baha’i from the Los Angeles area. Most of the interview is softball questions about the general principles and serves as a good introduction for someone who ... More About: Internet , Teaching , Difference , Diff
Ahmadinejad Asked About Baha?is In Iran
More articles from this author:2007-09-26 01:24:00 Ahmadinejad, the puppet president beholden to the Supreme Leader (Khamenei), came to the US this week and brought with him his Cheshire cat grin. I’m a believer in free speech so I personally had no qualms about the platform that he was given on American media. The problem is that the world, for the most part, ... More About: Iran , Ahmadinejad 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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