by Barney on 4 March 2007

Faith Initiative is a wonderful inter faith magazine that started under the aegis of the United Religions Initiative in the UK (URI UK), but subsequently was set up as an independent charity. The magazine is edited by Heather Wells and always includes some really inspiring and interesting material by writers from the different faiths (including [...]
by Barney on 4 March 2007

My reading from the Baha’i scriptures this morning took me to paragraphs 2:48 to 2:50 of The Tabernacle of Unity, the collection of Tablets (or epistles) revealed by Baha’u’llah for various Zoroastrians who had asked questions of Him. The first of these is addressed to
by Barney on 4 March 2007

That dread moment when the alarm goes off. It’s 6 a.m. and Erica and I drag ourselves out of bed to eat breakfast before the sun rises. We should probably bound out of our pit with joy, in expectation of another wonderful day of fasting. But I have to be honest and say I did [...]
by Barney on 4 March 2007

When I was a child at boarding school, I never slept well when the moon was full. Was I a werewolf? Well, no (I bet you’re reassured about that), but small boys are often superstitious. We had heard (from whom does one hear these things?) that you would go mad if you stared at the [...]