Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — As Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer’s 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating his family holiday traditions.
The boy wasn’t sure how to proceed because he and his family are Baha’is, not Christians, and they have no holidays during the [...]
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This story on Opticianonline highlights the risk for glaucoma patients of interpreting their religious fasting practices strictly.
It seems that some patients stop using their eye drops during periods of religious fasting, such as Ramadan.
A team led by Dr Nishant Kumar of University Hospital, Liverpool studied patient compliance in relation to fasting by analysing 350 surveys [...]
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I was deeply touched to receive the “I Love Your Blog” Award from one of my favourite fellow bloggers, Tess of Anchors and Masts. Tess’s writing combines spirituality, art, and wisdom – amongst other things – and I am honoured to be one of her awardees (is there such a word?).
The great joy of [...]
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The Jerusalem Post has reported that six Bahá’ís in Yemen have been arrested.Says the Post:
Though not officially banned in Yemen, the Bahá’í religion is considered by some Muslims as heresy.
These arrests come on top of the detention of nine people for converting from Islam to Christianity. Conversion from Islam to any other religion is illegal [...]
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The Seat of the Universal House of Justice, Haifa, Israel
Religion, politics and power
Welcome to a new series of occasional posts on the theme of religion, politics and power. Religion is becoming ever more prominent for good and ill in the public square. Questions about the relationship of religion, politics and power are increasingly important and [...]
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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 [...]
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The Dean’s Yard, Westminster Abbey © Mirsasha under a Creative Commons licence.
I should start by saying I’d intended to post this some days ago, but found myself overtaken by pressure of work.
On 14th February the Faith Communities Forum (which is part of the Inter Faith Network for the UK) met in Church House at the [...]
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