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Why We Don?t Have Peace in the Middle East
2007-07-02 18:32:00 Ever wonder why we just don’t seem to ever get traction in attempts to enable peace in the Middle East ? Why is it that hate and violence rules the day? Take a look at this short clip from a children’s show produced by a tv station backed by Hamas. It depicts Farfour, a Mickey Mouse ... More About: Peace , Internet , The Middle East
Annual Report from NSA of Canada
2007-07-02 00:08:00 The annual report from the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada finally made it’s way through snail mail. Unlike the speedier US counterpart (sent through the electronic intertubes) it is very bland. The only interesting part is where they mention their new approach to the budget: A continued challenge this year has been in maintaining sustained, generous response ... More About: Report , Fund , Annual
Ruhi: Mistaking Correlation for Causation
2007-06-29 06:00:00 I’ve been catching up on the Baha’i blogosphere this weekend and I just read Alison’s thought provoking observations on Ruhi . The thinking behind this all-encompassing Ruhi project appears to me like a cargo-cult mentality. Boiled down, it says: “If we build it, they will come”. In the late 19th century, peoples in the Pacific Islands believed ... More About: Relation , Taking , Ausa , Mista
An Alternative Understanding of the Bible
2007-06-28 15:13:00 A very intriguing alternative understanding of the Bible . This video is about 30 minutes long and will probably have you hooked in the first few minutes. I’d love to have some feedback from the Biblical scholars and historians out there. More About: Movies , Internet , Alternative , Understand
Love: A Dialogue by Brendan Cook
2007-06-23 00:49:00 BahaisOnline.net is currently BahaisOffline.net Apparently someone decided to use a DDoS attack against it and force it to be taken down. I’m glad to report that this situation is only temporary. Very soon Steve’s excellent site will be back up and dishing out off beat Baha’i news from around the world. Until then, I’m going to do ... More About: Internet , Love , Cook , Dialogue , Renda
Rainn Wilson on Real Time with Bill Maher
2007-06-18 02:59:00 The Baha’i actor, Rainn Wilson, appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on November 10th 2006. Rain was a guest along with CNN’s Candy Crowley, and infamous author Salman Rushdie. If you’re not familiar with the show, it is a satirical look at the US political landscape. Bill Maher takes no prisoners as his acid tongue ... More About: Humor , Internet , Real Time with Bill Maher
Summer Breeze
2007-06-17 15:42:00 Yes, of course. You’re wondering what happened to your intrepid blogger. Did a misstep cause a temporary residence in a well? Or perhaps an abduction by aliens? or worse yet an insistent Ruhi collaborator who wouldn’t take no for an answer? I’m afraid my life isn’t so melodramatic. The only explanation I can offer is this: it ... More About: Summer , Breeze
Ascencion of Baha?u'llah
2007-05-29 17:33:00 I received this wonderful poem from Tony Lee, of Kalimat Press, and wanted to share with you all. Lament at the Ascension by ?Andalib, written after the passing of Baha’u'llah __________________________________ He is the Powerful, the Mighty, the Beloved! Today the cupbearer, by God?s design, poured bile into the cup of life, not wine. Every wound has its balm, each ache a ...
Al-Azhar?s Creative Fatwa
2007-05-26 22:48:00 I am not making this up. You might think I am, but really, I’m not. No one can ever hope to hold a candle to the creative genius of Muslim clergy: The world reknown Islamic center in Egypt, Al-Azhar , has issued a recent fatwa which aimed to address the Islamic prohibition of having an unmarried (or ... More About: Creative , Fatwa
Special Consultant Hired to Cut Budget
2007-05-26 02:50:00 With the budgetary crunch, the ITC has called in a special consultant to try and balance the budgets. Here he is at work in a special joint meeting with the NSA of Canada and the United States: More About: Consultant , Special , Budget , Cons , Ulta
Rainn Wilson Mentions the Baha?i Faith
2007-05-24 16:38:00 Rainn Wilson clowns around with Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show. He is doing the talk show rounds to promote his movie The Last Mimzy and towards the end he is asked about his Faith . Here’s an interview he did at the US Baha’i Website. The Baha’i TV stars are really starting to pile up. Omid ... More About: Humor , Rainn Wilson
God Wants You To Send Him Money
2007-05-23 17:10:00 So here’s some news: Both the Baha’i community in the US and in Canada are in financial dire straits. In a urgent letter dated 5 February 2007, the National Spiritual Assembly informed… that, in response to its great concern about the present status of the Funds, it has asked its Treasurer and other members to visit ... More About: Humor , Money , Want , Ants , Send
Explaining Incumbancy in Baha?i Elections
2007-05-22 15:00:00 Alison was kind enough to rummage through the archives of Talisman and forward me a brilliant post from more than 10 years ago which explains the incumbancy inherent in Baha’i elections. I’ve changed a few things here and there but for the most part, I can not take credit for what follows. I wish to ... More About: Elections , Banc
Baha?i Elections - How to Improve Them - part II
2007-05-20 17:23:00 First, a bit of news from the Baha’i community of the United States (click here for original PDF document): NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF THE UNITED STATES May 18, 2007 To the American Baha’i community Dear Baha’i Friends, With feelings of deep loss, profound admiration, and enduring gratitude, we announce the retirement of Mr. William E. Davis after 21 years ... More About: Elections , Them , Part , Improve , Rove
Emergence From Obscurity: The Bachelor
2007-05-17 16:12:00 We’ve been told much about an eventual “emergence from obscurity” for the Baha’i Faith. Look no further! It has happened. The American TV show “The Bach elor ” where 25 bachellorettes vie for the love of one lucky bachelor has a unique contestant: Bevin from California is a Baha’i. We find out because as a finalist she accompanies Andy ... More About: Humor , Helo
LA Class Newsletter [#28]
2007-05-16 17:48:00 SKIP TO NEWSLETTER My Notes: This newsletter is quite interesting as it contains a lot of statistical data on the Baha’i community of the United States. It has a summary of the 59th National Convention with data on the number of Baha’is, assemblies, as well as information on the Baha’i budget and funds for that year. It ... More About: Newsletter , Class
Giving ?Prompt? New Meaning
2007-05-15 20:24:00 More than 75 years ago Shoghi Effendi sent this cable to Margaret Stevenson : 14 March 1932 Stevenson, 3 Cowie Road, Parnell, Auckland INFORM BERTRAM DEWING ENSURE PROMPT TRANSLATION ESSLEMONTS BOOK MAORI The above was one of four cables the Guardian sent out on that day requesting translation of Esslements book. The other languages were Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Rumanian, ... More About: Meaning , Giving , Ving , Prompt
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
2007-05-14 15:28:00 In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass,” Alice tells the White Queen that she cannot believe in impossible things. But the Queen says Alice simply hasn’t had enough practice. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” That ... More About: Breakfast , Things , Fast , Impossible , Thing
House of Justice Letter April 19 2007 - Response To NSA US
2007-05-12 14:11:00 The refreshing acknowledgement of reality contained in the Annual Report from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States drew a swift and scathing response from the House of Justice . You can read the response of the House of Justice to the legitimate concerns of the NSA of the United States regarding the ... More About: April , Letter , Ouse
Baha?i Views on Church & State
2007-05-11 11:10:00 As you know there are many Baha’is who mistakenly believe that future LSAs or local houses of justice will become the governing bodies replacing current municipal institutions. And so on up the chain to the national level and ultimately to the UHJ which, I guess, they think will run the whole ball of wax. Anyway, this ... More About: Church , Humor , Views , State , Stat
US Annual Report from National Spiritual Assembly of US
2007-05-10 01:44:00 Here is the Ridvan 2007 Annual Report from the National Spirit ual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States. My comments and personal thoughts are here. If you’d like a PDF version click here (pdf). You’ll need an Adobe Acrobat or similar software to read it. The underlined are my own emphasis to draw your attention ...
US NSA Annual Report - Ridvan 2007
2007-05-08 15:54:00 It now seems that the US National Spiritual Assembly may not be as asleep at the wheel as it seems. Or perhaps not all members are snoozing. Or perhaps the full frontal assault of reality on their senses is simply too much for even them to ignore any further. Here is the full Annual Repo rt of ...
Highlight From US National Convention
2007-05-07 15:51:00 Here is a full audio transcript of the closing address by Continental Counsellor Rebequa Murphy to the US National Convention . Bolded text is for emphais and my comments are in square brackets: [BEGIN TRANSCRIPT] It is wonderful the manner in which the friends immediately focused their consultation on that 19 April letter. And you know, to me, ... More About: Light , High , Highlight
Truth Happens
2007-05-06 18:40:00 If I seem to have not updated the past few days it is because I’ve been very busy. In fact there is much that I would like to write and share with you. Especially a recent event which, I believe, is one for the history books. But of course, you won’t hear or read about ... More About: Truth , Internet , Pens , Ruth
Further Victories? for Incumbancy
2007-05-01 16:20:00 We just had another round of National Conventions around the world to elect National Spiritual Assemblies (NSA). For the most part it seems to have been another sound victory for incumbancy. The nudge nudge, wink wink letter from the House of Justice, was, for the most part, largely ignored as the same people were elected ... More About: Tori , Victor , Banc
All Things Are of God
2007-05-01 00:35:00 That rabblerouser, Brian Taraz, is at it again! Now he’s come up with a brilliant plan. I’ll let him describe it in his own words: Who’s up for a “deed”-a-thon? “Say: O servants! Let not the means of order be made the cause of confusion and the instrument of union an occasion for discord. We fain would hope ... More About: Things , Thing
Baha?i Administrative Bureaucracy
2007-04-29 17:10:00 It is fun to look at the Baha’i administration through the prism lens of organizational studies. It is rather difficult for a Baha’i to have such knowledge and not indulge. So allow me the indulgence. Recently Steve featured an article which tried to depict the Baha’i administration as inhabiting the ’sweet spot’ inside a theoretical framework ... More About: Administrative , Trat , Admin , Stra , Bureaucracy
Life After Death
More articles from this author:2007-04-28 17:06:00 cartoon credit: Sinfest.net Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however acute, can ever hope to unravel. It is the first among all created things to declare the excellence of its Creator, the first ... More About: Humor , Life , Death , After 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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