Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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All too many of the inter-faith meetings I attend are “business” meetings – more to do with the business of keeping inter-faith organizations going than with the heart of inter-faith. And what is that heart?
St Ethelburga’s
Yesterday I sat with a small group of people, embraced in the spiritual peace of St Ethelburga’s – a church [...]
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Worth Abbey is set in in beautiful Sussex countryside, not far from Crawley. That’s where Mrs Barnabas and I went yesterday for an inter-faith gathering in the Unity Room, which is part of the Abbey Church building.
The gathering was one of the regular Faiths in Sussex events at Worth Abbey.
My faith, our world
I was one [...]
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On Monday 21st July I attended the Government’s launch of its new inter-faith strategy in London’s famous Westminster Central Hall.
In introducing Face to Face and Side by Side: A Framework for Partnership in Our Multi Faith Society, Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears MP, spoke of the practical contribution made by faith communities to life in the [...]
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Jaseep Singh Degun and Ushna Moghal of the Yorkshire and Humber Youth Interfaith Council addressing the IFN National Meeting
More and more people are doing it! Inter-faith dialogue is on the up here in the UK.
And this is not just amongst religious leaders and followers. Inter-faith increasingly prominent in the public realm in the UK. Following [...]
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The Australian Partnership of Religious Organisations has issued a strong statement calling on the Iranian authorities to release the Bahá’í leaders, who are currently being held in Evin prison in Tehran:
The Australian Partnership of Religious Organisations (APRO) welcomes the Australian Government’s statement of concern about the recent arrest of Baha’i leaders in Iran and the [...]
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Tony Blair, originally uploaded by WalkingGeek.
I was invited to attend Tony Blair’s recent lecture in Westminster Cathedral (that’s the Catholic cathedral) on “Faith and Globalisation“, but was otherwise committed that evening.
Here’s the opening paragraph [...]
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I am in the middle of prepare=ing to chair a meeting in Welwyn Garden City this evening on the theme of Faith in Government. The speakers will be the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St Albans, Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions, [...]
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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 [...]
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