From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Wake up and write!

by Barney on 29 January 2009

writer

photo credit: K. Sawyer
When I started blogging I was full of enthusiasm. I wanted to write every day. Some days I’d write several posts. But as time has gone on the urge to write has faded somewhat.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I still love to write. I’ve always loved to write, and my blog [...]

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Faith, football and $5,000

by Barney on 23 January 2009

Clare O’Brien is a remarkable young Baha’i, whose life has taken some interesting turns.
One of the remarkable things about Clare is her passion for football (and by ‘football’ I mean soccer – which really is football). Her blog, Football and Faith, relates football to her other passion, the Baha’i Faith. Hers is an original vision, [...]

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Aha, I am still alive. Sorry to have gone off air for so long. Life has been busy since I returned from the Baha’i World Centre.
I was intrigued to see this small article on the Islington Gazette 24 website:

THE YEAR 2009 started in record fashion for the Business Design Centre (BDC) in Upper Street, Islington, [...]

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A new must-read Baha’i blog

by Barney on 23 January 2009

Pete Hulme

My very good friend Pete Hulme has just started a brand new blog:
Everybody Means Something

Pete explains:
Ten years as a teacher of literature, thirty years as a psychologist and twenty-six years as a Bahá’í (not consecutively! I’m only 65.) have been part of a journey where I have been learning to use books and writing as [...]

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Unlikely to post until next week

by Barney on 7 January 2009

I’m currently out of the UK for a conference. Because of the time pressure of the conference, I’m unlikely to be able to post until I get home next week. I will be back.
Just to let you know!

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London Regional Baha’i Conference – Day 1

by Barney on 3 January 2009

Some well known faces at the study workshop I facilitated this morning
I don’t have time to write a full report from the first day of the London Regional Conference. But I can say this has been an enthralling and inspiring day. Great talks by International Teaching Centre members – Counsellors Stephen Birkland and Uransaikhan Baatar [...]

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Happy new year?

by Barney on 1 January 2009

The O2

photo credit: timrawle
On the night of 31st December 1999 my wife, my son, his girlfriend, and I travelled in a chartered Jubilee Line train from Westminster (we’d been at a reception at the House of Lords) to North Greenwich to see in the turn of the millennium at what was then known as the [...]

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