Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
The alarm jangled me awake at 3 a.m. and I rolled out of bed. Erica groaned and pulled the covers over her head.
By 3.20 a.m. we had joined other members of our Baha’i community in a simple, but intense, commemoration of the anniversary of the Ascension of Baha’u’llah. We shared the passages from God Passes [...]
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I was commissioned to write the following essay by the Institute for Public Policy Research, a leading UK progressive think tank, for a pamphlet on Faith and National Identity. The editor is Zaki Cooper, formerly Head of External Relations for the Chief Rabbi of the UK and the Commonwealth, and now Director of Business for [...]
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I returned home yesterday from giving the keynote presentation at a conference on The Importance of Faith in Healthcare at the Heartbeat Training Centre at Southampton General Hospital. The conference, organized by the chaplaincy team, attracted about 80 delegates. Some were serving chaplains, others were staff from various departments in the hospital. I had been [...]
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The Welwyn Baha’i community celebrated the anniversary of the Declaration of the B
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It’s time for a
…groundswell of information about the [Baha'i] Faith on the Internet through the flourishing of Web sites, blogs, podcasts, and other appropriate formats…
and
…the major and most dynamic thrust is envisaged through the stimulation and support of individual initiatives, particularly amongst the youth. [From a communication from the International Teaching Centre to the Baha'i [...]
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I’ve been really touched by the many loving comments and emails I’ve received following my Life Changes post on 1 May. (Most of the comments came as emails as I had turned off the comments while I was at Convention and hadn’t turned them back on.)
I feel that a brief update is in order. At [...]
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Well, according to Foreign Policy’s article The List: The World’s Fastest Growing Religions, the Baha’i Faith is the second fastest growing religion after Islam.
From Muslims in Europe to evangelical Christians in Africa, it is religious believers who are shaping the early 21st Century. Charismatic movements are sweeping throughout the Southern Hemisphere, while high birth [...]
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Baha’i bloggers, podcasters and other internet users in England had a series of excellent meetings with Thane Terrill, a member of the Baha’i Internet Agency, this weekend. Thane flew in from New York on Friday and immediately set to work. He met with National Assembly representatives on Friday afternoon, with young Baha’i bloggers/podcasters [...]
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Thanks to the wonders of the Internet and a webcam I can watch my astronomer daughter, Angharad (aka Hari) at work at the James Clark Maxwell Telescope, 13,000 feet up Mauna Kea, in Hawaii.
James Clark Maxwell Telescope
According to the telescope’s website:
With a diameter of 15m the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is the largest astronomical [...]
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News outlets in New Zealand have reported that Samoa’s Head of State, his Majesty Malietoa Tanumafili II, has died in hospital aged 95. He was the oldest serving head of state in the world.
Malietoa was a Baha’i and dedicated the
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