I had the privilege last Thursday of participating in another session of the Voices: Multi-faith Enquiry Circle in the wonderful Tent at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in the heart of the City, London’s financial district.

The Tent, which is an intimate space smelling faintly of camel hair, encourages dialogue.

There must have been around 20 or 25 of us, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Baha’i, perhaps some of no particular faith, sitting on the divan around the circumference of the Tent. We began with a few minutes of silent meditation - and that silence was powerful. I could hear the traffic of the City, but it didn’t intrude on the meditation. It’s a bit like being in the Shrine of the Bab at the Baha’i World Centre on Mt Carmel, where one can hear the sounds of the outside as a distant accompaniment to one’s prayers and contemplation.

Three of us then spoke in turn on the theme of ‘spiritual etiquette’. I had been asked to speak first. I began by quoting Shoghi Effendi’s commentary in God Passes By of some of the moral teachings of Baha’u'llah given in the Kitab-i-Aqdas:

Apart from these provisions Bah

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