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Monday, December 22, 2008

Chanukah celebration at the Foreign Office

by Barney on 22 December 2008

I have just returned from a Chanukah (aka Hanukkah) celebration hosted by David Miliband MP, the British Foreign Secretary, at Lancaster House (just off London’s Pall Mall).
Mr Miliband spoke simply and well, welcoming the second time that the FCO had celebrated Chanukah and looking forward to the third time, by when it will have become [...]

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A dream of ‘Abdu’l-Baha saves a life

by Barney on 22 December 2008

‘Abdu’l-Baha
This very sweet tale was sent to me by my good friend Jack McLean, Baha’i poet and scholar in Canada, who received it indirectly from a Phil Christensen, a Baha’i in South Africa. Jack, to whom I’m most grateful, introduces the story.
It is well worth reading. I have recast the introduction but not the story [...]

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