Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
I started blogging last year on Blogger, before taking to WordPress and my own domain. John Barnabas Leith was the predecessor to Barnabas Quotidianus.
Unity in a Diverse World, on the other hand, was a blog that didn’t travel very far, having just two entries. But I think the second entry on the meaning of life [...]
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If you want to know what people are choosing as their favoured icons of Engllshness, you need go no further than these pages on the BBC’s website.
New icons of Englishness unveiled
Notting Hill Carnival has become Europe’s largest street carnival
The Notting Hill Carnival, Hadrian’s Wall, the mini-skirt, cricket, Morris dancing and the pub have all been [...]
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Tomorrow morning Erica and I will be heading off to sunny Llandudno in North Wales for the UK Bah?’? National Convention, which starts tomorrow and finishes midday on Monday. So no bog entries over the weekend. I hope I’ll get time to write about Convention on Tuesday (12th day of Ridvan).
Technorati Tags: Baha’i, Bahai
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This interview with a young Iranian Bah?’? from Scotland can be found on the BBC website:
Iranian diaspora: Soroosh Khavari
MEET THE PANEL
Name: Soroosh Khavari
Age: 24
Lives: Glasgow, Scotland
Works: Dentist
My family fled Iran during the revolution because they follow the Bahai religion, whose followers suffer much persecution in Iran.
I was only six months old when we left.
The Islamic [...]
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UK Bah?’? Dr Dan Sarooshi (Reader in International Law and Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford) has been awarded the 2006 Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law for his book International Organizations and their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (OUP). The book was cited as a ‘pre-eminent contribution to creative scholarship’ and [...]
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Erica and I spent most of yesterday unboxing and shelving books in our new home. Many of the books have been boxed up for some time or I’ve been apart from them, because they’ve been in one place while I’ve been living in another.
I have been ruthless in putting a lot of books back into [...]
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It has been a real Spring day today – the first of the year, I think. Hari, Doug and Jake came over for lunch, bringing Mieko with them. (It was Mieko’s first visit to our new home). We were able sit out on the deck in the (small garden) and enjoy the sun.
The Welwyn (pronounced [...]
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Ok, so here we are, the newly formed Spiritual Assembly of the Bah?’?s of Welwyn. Thursday evening (after sunset) was a joyous time for this particular group of Bah?’?s (including the author of this blog). We were able to declare our Local Assembly formed in the presence of a representative of the Bah?’? Council [...]
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This broadcast has been drawn to my attention by a Bah?’? friend in the UK. It’s worth listening to if only to hear how such an eminent Muslim scholar as Seyyed Hossein Nasr struggles both to justify the persecution of the Bah?’?s and to say that nothing has really happened to them in recent years.
Nasr [...]
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The Independent on Sunday yesterday included a mention of the Faith in their Easter Special: I believe…
Every week in The Independent on Sunday, a public figure talks about their beliefs, but for Easter we asked the great and the good one question: do you believe in God?
By Peter Stanford
Published: 16 April 2006
Every year church-going statistics [...]
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