by Barney on 26 March 2008
Here are a couple of shots of me speaking during the Nordic Bahá’í Youth Conference (see immediately previous post).
Both pictures © Safa Hovinen
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by Barney on 25 March 2008
This is what I saw when I looked out of my bedroom at Hotel Vihiluoto in Kempele, between Oulu and Oulu airport, in Finland’s frozen north. The Gulf of Bothnia is just beyond the trees. The temperature never rose above -3ºC the whole time I was there (20 to 24 March) and fell as [...]
by Barney on 19 March 2008
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Oulu City House, originally uploaded by ptrktn.
I’m off to the city of Oulu in Finland to attend the Vikings Youth Conference, a conference for Baha’i youth from the Nordic countries.
No, please don’t laugh. I [...]
by Barney on 16 March 2008
Payam Akhavan, professor of international law at McGill University Faculty of Law, speaks before Congress the US Commission on International Religious Freedom on February 21, 2008, for a hearing on “Human Rights & Religious Freedom in Iran.” This comes in four segments. Professor Akhavan is himself an Iranian Baha’i, living in Canada.
Hat-tip to Jim for [...]
by Barney on 14 March 2008
This is remarkable video of Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, recounting her experience of a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. She describes the big lesson she learns, that stilling the brain chatter of our left hemispheres and allowing the all-at-once, here-and-now, all-embracing perceptions of our brains’ right hemispheres to break down the [...]
by Barney on 13 March 2008
A Jew (man), a Christian (woman), a Muslim (woman), a Hindu (man) and a Baha’i (man) were interviewing candidates for the post of Assistant Director of the Inter Faith Network for the UK. Sounds like the opening line of one of those jokes, but it isn’t. This is exactly what happened today – and I [...]
by Barney on 11 March 2008
I’ve only just found out about this excellent site designed to help study of the Bahá’í Most Holy Book, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
Borna Safai, the site’s webmaster, says:
During one of his Thursday evening study classes, Mr. Dunbar mentioned that we should attempt to cross-reference everything in the Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to the verses, questions [...]
by Barney on 4 March 2008
British young people seem intent on drinking themselves and British society in a complete stupor. Our government believed that it could change the traditional British drinking culture of knocking back the booze until you fall over into a continental-style café culture of allegedly civilized drinking by allowing pubs and clubs to obtain licences to sell [...]
by Barney on 3 March 2008
Yes, I’m back from Oslo, where I spent the weekend running a training course for local Baha’i representatives in the mystic arts of external affairs in the beautiful Baha’i Centre.
We covered a range of subjects, from how to arrange and conduct a meeting with your MP to dealing with the media.
I [...]
