Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
I’ve been sitting on this post for several days now, partly because I’ve been so busy, but partly because the issue is such a sensitive one and I wanted time to reflect on it before I committed myself to writing about it.
I had the honour of representing our National Spiritual Assembly and the UK Baha’i [...]
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I can highly recommend this fascinating video about the situations of the Baha’is in Iran and Egypt. It explains what the Baha’is in Iran and Egypt are suffering as a result of the persecutions their respective countries; it shows the terrible (il)logic of the denial of ID cards to the Egyptian Baha’is; and it explains [...]
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One reader has objected to the Naw-Ruz messages to the UK Baha’i community from Prime Minister Blair and Leader of the Opposition David Cameron MP. Fair enough!
So he posted a comment that was gratuitously derogatory to both these gentleman. Not fair enough!
I deleted the comment, so the same reader posted another comment accusing me of [...]
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Our National Spiritual Assembly has just received greetings messages for Naw-Ruz from our Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. Tony Blair MP:
Naw-Ruz greetings from the Prime Minister (Rt Hon Tony Blair MP).
March 2007
It gives me great pleasure, once again, to send my best wishes to the Baha’i community in the UK as you celebrate Naw Ruz. [...]
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Our Baha’i community (Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England) has been running a series of public meditation classes in a local community centre for the past few weeks. The classes, using the excellent CALM course, designed by Paul Profaska and published by George Ronald, have attracted a number of friends of Baha’is, all of whom have said how [...]
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O Pen of the Most High! Say: O people of the world! We have enjoined upon you fasting during a brief period, and at its close have designated for you Naw-Ruz as a feast. Thus hath the Day-Star of Utterance shone forth above the horizon of the Book as decreed by Him Who is the [...]
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A very happy Naw-Ruz to all
The Baha’i festival of Naw-Ruz really falls on the Spring Equinox, but we celebrate it on 21st March each year, even if the equinox falls a day earlier or later. From tomorrow it will be the year 164 of the Baha’i Era.
Let’s hope it won’t be long before we [...]
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Every morning I read something from the Baha’i sacred writings. I do this in obedience to Baha’u’llah’s command. It’s my obligation. But, more than that, this reading is food for my soul.
The odes of Jalaluddin Rumi have been a kind spiritual dessert to the main course of Baha’u’llah’s writings during this Fast. Here’s ode [...]
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Back in February 2005 I gave a paper at a conference at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London on the theme: Does God Believe in Human Rights? I was very pleased a few days ago when the edited volume of the papers from the conference (published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands) dropped through [...]
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Well, yesterday was a marathon. Erica and I both serve on the executive committee for Baha’i Books UK, formerly known as the Baha’i Publishing Trust. Two other members of the five-member committee live in our neighbouring Baha’i community and we all left together just after 8 a.m. for the two-hour drive to Birmingham, where Helena, [...]
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