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Baha?i Administrative Body of Iran Arrested
2008-05-15 00:22:00 Breaking News Morning Wednesday May 14th, 2008 - Tehran, Iran Report from the Universal House of Justice … the members of the Friends in Iran - the group that coordinates the activities of the Baha’i community in the absence of a National Spiritual Assembly in the Cradle of the Faith - have been summarily and unjustly arrested by ... More About: Body , Administrative
Reports Show Communities Ignoring Ruhi
2008-05-14 15:20:00 During the last Baha’i National Convention, Bill Davis addressed the convention attempting to re-direct their attention away from the NSA’s own annual report, which presented an honest assessment of the situation on the ground in Baha’i communities in the US, to the letter from the UHJ directing Baha’is to “stay the course”. Towards the end ... More About: Show , Ruhi
New Baha?i Renovation & Beautification Projects
2008-05-13 22:05:00 Shrine of the Bab illuminated by celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary. The Universal House of Justice has communicated the expansion and continuation of renovations and beautifications for existing and expanding Baha’i properties in Israel. Click to read the full letter here. The BWC has been able to exchange some land north of Akka for a plot adjacent ... More About: Projects , Fund
Universal House of Justice: Ridvan Message 2008
2008-05-06 20:31:00 Here is the Universal House of Justice ’s Ridvan Message for 2008 . If you have trouble reading it below, you can follow the above link to download the document to your computer. You can also use the menu to print it out (click or hover where it says iPaper below).
Individual Conscience Within the Baha?i Faith
2008-05-06 17:13:00 Although this blog is a personal endeavor, I am blessed with the company of many friends who share with me their thoughts and opinions. Within a previous discussion, there was a comment about the sacredness of individual conscience and how it relates to the Baha’i Faith . There are those who hold this opinion: ?We have inherited a ... More About: Conscience , Individual
Meet the New Universal House of Justice
2008-04-30 16:19:00 The scrutineers where scrutinizing so hard they are still squinting, the counters were counting (and re-counting), Counsellor Penny Walker, as chairperson of the convention, kept imploring the tellers to not actually look at the ballots because they didn’t need to use their own eyes, they could just look through the eyes of the UHJ! Thankfully ... More About: House , Justice , Meet , Universal
US NSA Loses Court Case Against Orthodox Baha?is
2008-04-28 13:21:00 This is about Covenant-Breakers so if you are sensitive, please go and look at some bunny pictures or play with a kitten or something. The rest of you can soldier on. Since most have no clue what this is all about, here are the Cliff Notes: Way back in 1966, when normal people were busy growing as ... More About: Case , Court
What do Baha?is do?
2008-04-23 15:34:00 So you’re dying to know what it is that Baha’is actually do? Well, this website wants to answer you with several video interviews. They are about the Ruhi sequence of courses and the different activities attached to them such as Junior Youth Groups (Book 5) and devotionals, etc. There are more than a dozen videos, and they are ...
Where is the Garden of Ridvan?
2008-04-21 15:59:00 After His imprisonment in the Black Pit, Baha’u'llah was exiled to Baghdad. The group arrived in the capital of modern Iraq in the spring of 1853. Baha’u'llah soon left to live in solitude for two years in the mountains of Kurdistan. In 1856 He rejoined the Holy family in Baghdad and wrote among His most ... More About: Garden
Sectarian Violence: Explosion in Shiraz Mosque
2008-04-13 02:46:00 A home-made bomb exploded, killing at least 9 people, and injuring more than a 100 in Shiraz today. The site of the bombing was the Shohada (Martyrs) mosque, part of the Rahpouyan-e-Vesal cultural center. My condolences and prayers to those who lost loved ones and for those who were injured. No one has yet officially claimed ... More About: Iran , Mosque , Violence , Explosion
Second Fastest Growing Religion
2008-04-01 20:26:00 Currently there is an interesting discussion on Talisman about the nature and evolution of the Baha’i community and identity. Among the things being talked about is the size of the Baha’i community in the US. Apparently, according to the numbers from the NSA of the United States, we are seeing a stagnant community. And if taken ... More About: Religion , Growing , Fastest Growing Religion
Message from Above?
2008-04-01 13:36:00 Have you ever gotten an email that wasn’t intended for you? I know its rare but it does happen. The mathematical probabilities aren’t that small when you consider the sheer volume of email zipping around these days. Even so, I was flabbergasted when I got an email recently that most certainly was not intended for ... More About: Humor , Message
Is an Unknowable God Logical?
2008-03-29 14:58:00 This is the slideshow portion of a presentation titled: Is an Unknowable God Logical ? Since it doesn’t include the commentary and explanations of the presenter, one has to fill in the spots with some imagination. But it still is an interesting look at the question of the existence of God, miracles and other such issues. Here is ... More About: Atheism
Several Baha?i Documents & Speeches
2008-03-26 22:50:00 One of the readers of this blog, Farhan Yazdani, was kind enough to share these after another person requested them in a discussion. I took the liberty of putting them in this format since it offers more flexibility. You can read it as is, send it to a friend, embed it into your site or ... More About: Ruhi , Speeches , Documents
Memories of Nine Years in Akka: A Review
2008-03-18 15:17:00 Memories of Nine Years in Akka (Khatirát-i-Nuh-Saliy-i-?Akká) is the translation of the memoirs of Dr. Youness Afroukhteh, Abdu’l-Baha’s secretary and interpreter during 1900 to 1909. It is published by George Ronald and can be found at any good Baha’i bookstore, as well as many online book sellers. It covers the period of time when the Baha’i ... More About: Review , Memories
Happy St. Patrick?s Day To My Fellow Baha?is
2008-03-17 14:06:00 Today we are all either Irish, or honorary Irish. Little known fact: although everyone refers to him as Saint Patrick , he was never officially canonized by any Pope. In anycase, I wonder how the original Patrick, saint or not, would feel to have his death commemorated by celebrations of Bacchus proportions. One of the most obvious ... More About: Humor , Happy
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?
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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