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	<description>Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith</description>
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		<title>By: Adrift on the Seas of Blog &#171; Abdur Rahman&#8217;s Corner</title>
		<link>http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/07/16/bahais-in-the-streets-of-hatfield/comment-page-1/#comment-14808</link>
		<dc:creator>Adrift on the Seas of Blog &#171; Abdur Rahman&#8217;s Corner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Barnabus Quotidianus: Baha&#8217;is in the Streets of Hatfield [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Baha'is on Hatfield streets - reflections a week on &#124; Barnabas quotidianus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Baha'is on Hatfield streets - reflections a week on &#124; Barnabas quotidianus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] as Bill pointed out in his comment on my first post about teaching at people&#8217;s door, the answer to this question may have something to do with [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] as Bill pointed out in his comment on my first post about teaching at people&#8217;s door, the answer to this question may have something to do with [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Geoff Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/07/16/bahais-in-the-streets-of-hatfield/comment-page-1/#comment-14775</link>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for sharing your experience Barney ! We are planning to go door to door in the nearby town of Penzance for our intensive in August. I must admit that I did not want to do this in our own small village -children that go to my school live there- but the  relative anonymity of a larger town seems easier.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sharing your experience Barney ! We are planning to go door to door in the nearby town of Penzance for our intensive in August. I must admit that I did not want to do this in our own small village -children that go to my school live there- but the  relative anonymity of a larger town seems easier.</p>
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		<title>By: Róbert Badí Baldursson</title>
		<link>http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/07/16/bahais-in-the-streets-of-hatfield/comment-page-1/#comment-14772</link>
		<dc:creator>Róbert Badí Baldursson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Barney! I was curious to know how your experience would be. Thank you for sharing this. We will be trying this soon here in Iceland. Actually a good friend of mine came back recentry from such a project in Merton, London area, with very inspiring stories. Take care and good luck with all this ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Barney! I was curious to know how your experience would be. Thank you for sharing this. We will be trying this soon here in Iceland. Actually a good friend of mine came back recentry from such a project in Merton, London area, with very inspiring stories. Take care and good luck with all this <img src='http://www.leithjb.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Steve Marshall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve Marshall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s called dogfooding, Barney. :-)

&lt;blockquote&gt;To say that a company &quot;eats its own dog food&quot; means that it uses the products that it makes. For example, Microsoft emphasizes the use of its own software products inside the company. &quot;Dogfooding&quot; is a means of conveying the company&#039;s confidence in its own products.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_one&#039;s_own_dog_food&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki: Eating one&#039;s own dog food&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s called dogfooding, Barney. <img src='http://www.leithjb.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<blockquote><p>To say that a company &#8220;eats its own dog food&#8221; means that it uses the products that it makes. For example, Microsoft emphasizes the use of its own software products inside the company. &#8220;Dogfooding&#8221; is a means of conveying the company&#8217;s confidence in its own products.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_one's_own_dog_food" rel="nofollow">Wiki: Eating one&#8217;s own dog food</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Barney</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bill, I wanted to say how much I agree with your view that the only way the Baha&#039;i community is going to become more representative of the population as a whole is if we go and knock on people&#039;s doors - at least to get ourselves started.

Yes, it&#039;s an important step to social justice. I can&#039;t see how else we can accomplish Bahá&#039;u&#039;lláh&#039;s aim of uniting humankind and building a new global civilization based on justice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bill, I wanted to say how much I agree with your view that the only way the Baha&#8217;i community is going to become more representative of the population as a whole is if we go and knock on people&#8217;s doors &#8211; at least to get ourselves started.</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s an important step to social justice. I can&#8217;t see how else we can accomplish Bahá&#8217;u'lláh&#8217;s aim of uniting humankind and building a new global civilization based on justice.</p>
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		<title>By: Barney</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brian, George, Bill, thank you all for your wise and perceptive comments.

I cannot think of two days in my recent life when I learned so much. I don&#039;t mean that I learned what I would pass an exam with. What I learned was really about myself and my capacity to tolerate anxiety as I knocked on each door, while thinking that perhaps this was the door behind which I and my teaching partner would find someone who would fall in love with Baha&#039;u&#039;llah.

It&#039;s not easy (for me, at least) to sustain for a whole day a spiritual and loving approach to blank doors looking for the response of the soul behind the door. Without prayer - a lot of prayer - it is not possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian, George, Bill, thank you all for your wise and perceptive comments.</p>
<p>I cannot think of two days in my recent life when I learned so much. I don&#8217;t mean that I learned what I would pass an exam with. What I learned was really about myself and my capacity to tolerate anxiety as I knocked on each door, while thinking that perhaps this was the door behind which I and my teaching partner would find someone who would fall in love with Baha&#8217;u'llah.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not easy (for me, at least) to sustain for a whole day a spiritual and loving approach to blank doors looking for the response of the soul behind the door. Without prayer &#8211; a lot of prayer &#8211; it is not possible.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The wisdom in Baha&#039;is undertaking this kind of outreach is that it places us in contact with people who we very likely would never meet otherwise because they might not live in our neighborhood or would be hesitant to come to our homes. 

In the U.S., we have certain specific criteria to identify neighborhoods that are receptive to door-to-door teaching.  The receptive neighborhoods tend to be lower income, immigrant or minority,  with many children visible out of doors.  

I think the result of this getting outside our comfort zones will be a Baha&#039;i community more representative of the population as a whole. Ultimately, this will have an impact on social justice.  After all, the Baha&#039;i communities in the West should not be majority Iranian. Rather, they should reflect the makeup of the countries in which they grow and flourish.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The wisdom in Baha&#8217;is undertaking this kind of outreach is that it places us in contact with people who we very likely would never meet otherwise because they might not live in our neighborhood or would be hesitant to come to our homes. </p>
<p>In the U.S., we have certain specific criteria to identify neighborhoods that are receptive to door-to-door teaching.  The receptive neighborhoods tend to be lower income, immigrant or minority,  with many children visible out of doors.  </p>
<p>I think the result of this getting outside our comfort zones will be a Baha&#8217;i community more representative of the population as a whole. Ultimately, this will have an impact on social justice.  After all, the Baha&#8217;i communities in the West should not be majority Iranian. Rather, they should reflect the makeup of the countries in which they grow and flourish.</p>
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		<title>By: george wesley dannells</title>
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		<dc:creator>george wesley dannells</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, this is the story I&#039;ve been waiting to hear since I heard you would be doing direct teaching in the &#039;hood. Thrilling, even just to read. We here in Tacoma are having similar experiences of meeting families we would not have met otherwise unless we had knocked on their door.

Last night,  along with another brand new Baha&#039;i, just four weeks since her declaration, we visited once of these precious souls in what is our 6th home visit in the last two and a half weeks, staying for three of those visits for a full 90 minutes, having begun study of Ruhi Book 1.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, this is the story I&#8217;ve been waiting to hear since I heard you would be doing direct teaching in the &#8216;hood. Thrilling, even just to read. We here in Tacoma are having similar experiences of meeting families we would not have met otherwise unless we had knocked on their door.</p>
<p>Last night,  along with another brand new Baha&#8217;i, just four weeks since her declaration, we visited once of these precious souls in what is our 6th home visit in the last two and a half weeks, staying for three of those visits for a full 90 minutes, having begun study of Ruhi Book 1.</p>
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		<title>By: brian</title>
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		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for sharing your experiences Barney. My wife and I are anxious to go to a community where we can experience this --and I too wonder how comfortable I would be doing it. But on the other hand if there are people who respond positively then perhaps the discomfort is worthwhile. The home visits though are an entirely different thing and I can see myself looking forward to this quite a bit! Maybe we can can come to England someday and you can take us with you ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sharing your experiences Barney. My wife and I are anxious to go to a community where we can experience this &#8211;and I too wonder how comfortable I would be doing it. But on the other hand if there are people who respond positively then perhaps the discomfort is worthwhile. The home visits though are an entirely different thing and I can see myself looking forward to this quite a bit! Maybe we can can come to England someday and you can take us with you <img src='http://www.leithjb.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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