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From the monthly archives:
December 2007
I have hit the big six-oh. How can that have happened?
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Erica and I had a real scare yesterday. As we were just about to leave to spend the day with our eldest son and his family, we locked ourselves out of our house.
I usually lock the front door last thing at night and leave the key in [...]
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The Barber’s Diaries is a film crying out to be made. In fact, David Henderson, a very good friend of mine in Washington DC, has been working with Charles Ellis’s descendants and with contacts in the movie industry to persuade someone to fund the production. They are also looking for a novelist or a scriptwriter [...]
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December mist, Woolmer Green, Hertfordshire
One of the joys of living where we do is the freedom to walk out of the house and into the Hertfordshire countryside. Erica pointed out the mist lying in the shallow valley in which Woolmer Green, our neighbouring village, sits.
As we walked down towards Robbery Bottom Lane we [...]
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Erica and I have been running a weekly study circle on the theme of reflections on the life of the spirit since mid-September. We’ve been using the first book of the Ruhi Institute materials. For the past few sessions, we’ve been studying the third unit of Book 1, which is about [...]
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It’s five years from the next census in the UK, but the Office of National Statistics (ONS) is already planning for the great day of reckoning.
Census 2001
Census 2001 saw the inclusion of a question about religion for the very first time in a census in England and Wales. People were asked “What is your religion?” [...]
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The Australian Baha’is have a sharp new website – great design, inviting and clean and with interesting stories.
The Australian Baha’is do some great spiritual and moral education work in schools and in after-school clubs, particularly with the 11-15 year olds. This story covers some of that work.
The whole site is well worth a visit.
(Hat-tip: my [...]
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Human Rights Day 2007 sees the launch of a year-long campaign to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2008. Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has written:
This campaign will engage the whole UN system in promoting the Declaration’s ideals and principles of [...]
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
No doubt you clocked that today, 10 December, has been Human Rights Day. Were you able to [...]
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